I know of a couple. One was outlined in the old book "test tube chess" by A.J. Roycroft. The book is about chess puzzle creation and solving, but the golden nugget in the book for calculation is his "iterative process" which is why I named the thread after it.
The popular way is to use a set of "candidate moves." You can find that method in several books as well, but you'll find quite a bit of reading on it just by using google.
Here is a pretty good video that talks about the thought process that Melik suggest we use in games: I found it to be pretty helpful:
http://www.chess.com/video/player/evaluation-and-planning---part-1
Candidate moves seems to work, i think the chess position trainer will help me with speed and candidate moves. But i couldnt find anything online about the iterative process. I wonder if the chess club in st louis has the book on hand (Members have access to their chess book library)
Jd, that vid seems pretty interesting from what i could watch of it (non members can only watch the first 3 min :) But it sounds like alot of what silman was saying in amatures mind and how to reassess your chess.
Its a pretty obscure resource. If you can't find it let me know and I'll take a picture of the page.
Have a free trial of premium membership againgunna watch that video now. And I could use a pic of that page heister if u don't mind
I took a picture of the pages. I hope you can read them. Here is the position he is discussing:
I found that if I zoom in the browzer, the pages are indeed readable.
Mr. Crow asked this question:
"I have a question. When playing turn based online chess its easy to have an effective check-list to avoid miatakes. but thats pretty time consuming, how do you transfer that to a timed game?"