How do you scan the board?

Going4Draw · 2022-07-28T01:53:47-07:00

I'm curious the steps players do before making the next move. I'm sure the higher your strength the more you see on the board.

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TheNumberTwenty

Jul 31, 2022

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The basic blunder checks (taking every tactical motif I've seen and seeing if it at all could apply to my current position or my oponnents') and then more recently as I've gotten better I do "endgame checks" to see if I would have a favorable position if I were to initiate several trades. "Endgame checks" have honestly granted me a lot of wins in middlegame positions that are otherwise unclear. Also it feels great when your oponnent is trying to push into you but you just trade off all the pieces which makes his attack slowly die off until he's just worse in an endgame.