Tactics Tactics Tactics!

Found a good resource I thought I'd share with you all.

For the last few months I've found myself lacking motivation to work through tactical problems, reason being that after doing a trillion of them I wasn't seeing the improvement in my chess that I'd hoped for. Well, I went from 15-1800 on the ICC, but ICC ratings are probably more about concentration than improvement.

Anyway, I've started studying general attacking ideas recently in a bid to make more use of the tactical patterns I've learned, but even in times when solving problems isn't a priority I think we need to look at the occasional exercise to keep patterns we've learned fresh!

So- in that spirit: pattern recognition videos, for the lazy student!

http://www.chessvideos.tv/wiki/index.php/Tactics_Videos

I have this week off work too so stay tuned for some end game stuff maybe:)!