Extreme chess tactics are to chess what pornography is to sexuality.
Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mate
What kind of human being only thinks of tactics?
If a little tactics is good, then a lot is great?!
Like a mysterious birthday gift, the chess position sits in front of you, waiting to be opened up.
There's so much joy finding the tactical twist that reveals what's inside.
If it's a knight sacrifice, now, you want to see a rook sac. Once you find that, where is the next thrill. Maybe there's a rook and knight sacrifice out there someplace.
Give me more, more, more!
It's hard not enjoying the thrill. Still, it's not realistic.
We don't always have to be (or want to be) in the real world. Increasingly greater amounts of tactics or greater depth of intricacies become the holy grail to the exclusion of everything else.
Tactical excess is ultimately destructive.
When everything is tactics, you'll make tactical decisions and lose your games because you haven't developed your sense of strategy. You've hit a rating ceiling and the elusive thrills will be even harder to find.
This site is a call for appreciating more strategic chess, for improving your own chess skills by appreciating a greater variety of skills, beyond tactics.
