Having trouble seeing moves in advance
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Jul 21, 2024
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Train your calculation by solving puzzles without moving the pieces. Read up on basic positional ideas. Once you see enough tactical patterns you will start to develop a sense of danger. They say chess is 99% tactics, but I think it’s 99% calculation. That’s the hard part.
Jul 22, 2024
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When calculating, try to visualize the board a few moves ahead. This can be practiced by solving puzzles without moving the pieces.
Jul 22, 2024
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Here are a few resources that could help. They may be a bit advanced for you, but I would still recommend that you give them a try.
This is one is good for visualization openings and board vision.
This one is good for tactics and pattern recognition.
And lessons are good for everything else.
some other things you could try doing is watching some YouTubers such as
Danya https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHP9CdeguNUI-_nBv_UXBhw
Hikaru https://www.youtube.com/gmhikaru
or gotham-chess https://www.youtube.com/@GothamChess
As well as a myriad of others.
Thanks for the replies, I'll try the puzzle exercise that a couple of you mentioned. I believe my main issue so far has been playing too quickly, and the last couple of games I've played have gone better since trying to slow down and triple check I'm not leaving anything hanging before moving.
idkwhatimdoingj wrote:
I believe my main issue so far has been playing too quickly, and the last couple of games I've played have gone better since trying to slow down and triple check I'm not leaving anything hanging before moving.
Looking at a few of your games, your analysis seems to be spot on. Slowing down (and thinking) is certainly the way forward.
Hi, I've hit a wall recently and I've realized I'm very often ending up in situations where I'm finding myself cornered seemingly out of nowhere. This is always to due to some sequence of setup moves that are either a) moves I didn't see as a threat in advance or b) moves that I've realized are beginning to trap me but I can't find a way out regardless. I know this is a broad issue, but I'm wondering if anyone has any advice. For what it's worth, I do try to check out the self analysis tool after some games but I'm not really sure how to make use of it; the situations and positions I slip up in vary from game to game and the x amount of best engine alternatives to the x times that I messed up don't really mean anything to me, or at least I don't know how to glean any general strategy from them. Thank you in advance for any help.