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"Chess is 90% tactics" is a pretty subjective statement

• deleted 6y ago
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• cupofcoffee 6y ago
  I didn't come up with the quote appears in Chess circles a lot. I think a chess master said it.
• jmchuster 6y ago
  Hikaru Nakamura's take on the statement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrN16c3DTzE&feature=youtu.be&t=4m50s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrN16c3DTzE&feature=youtu.be...
  • colmvp 6y ago
    That seems to ring true. At lower levels like where I'm at, players are prone to mistakes and blunders, so having a good eye for tactics allows you to take advantage of those moments in the game as well as prevent yourself from getting into a bad situation. But at elite levels, tactics have less importance (as he says in the video he estimates it drops to 50%) as every player at that level is extremely solid.