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🔍 Game Analysis (Your Own or Opponent’s) 1. Look at the Opening Check if the opening follows common principles: control center, develop pieces, castle. See if any side breaks the rules (early queen moves, moving same piece twice, etc.). 2. Identify Strengths & Weaknesses Weak squares (holes where pawns can’t defend). Open files for rooks. Exposed king or bad pawn structure. 3. Check Tactical Motifs Look for forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks. Use the “blunder check”: before moving, ask “if I play this, can my opponent capture or trap something?” 4. Strategic Ideas Who controls the center? Which side has better piece activity? Long-term plans: pawn breaks, trading bad pieces, pushing passed pawns. --- 🎯 How to Predict Opponent’s Moves 1. Force Yourself to Think Like Them Before you move, stop and ask: “If I were my opponent, what would I do?” 2. Check Candidate Moves Look for the most forcing moves first: checks, captures, threats. Then look at improving moves: developing, controlling center, defending weaknesses. 3. Use the 3-Move Rule Imagine 2–3 of your opponent’s best responses to your move. If one of those is very strong, avoid walking into it. 4. Pattern Recognition Study common tactical patterns (., back-rank mate, knight fork). The more patterns you know, the faster you can “predict” likely moves. 5. Time Management In fast games, predict moves while your opponent is thinking. That way, when they move, you’re already prepared. --- 🧠 Training Tips After each game, replay it and pause before each opponent move. Try guessing what they played. Use puzzle rush / tactics trainer: improves your ability to spot forcing moves quickly. Study master games: see how strong players think in similar positions.
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Thanks for reading

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Great ideas. Unfortunately, I have to read the rest on my browser since the phone cuts off half the text.

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ElNegroCorazon wrote:

Great ideas.

It's written by ChatGPT. There are quite a few nonsensical things in there, as the chatbot has no clue about chess (or about anything). For example, the "3-move rule" mentioned there doesn't exist, it was made up by the chatbot.

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magipi wrote:
ElNegroCorazon wrote:

Great ideas.

It's written by ChatGPT. There are quite a few nonsensical things in there, as the chatbot has no clue about chess (or about anything). For example, the "3-move rule" mentioned there doesn't exist, it was made up by the chatbot.

Kinda obvious it was AI

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Emojis are already the key to know that they used AI
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If you don't like then pls don't post negative comments I m still in class 6 and I took some help from chatgpt and some I wrote myself

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good-h wrote:

If you don't like then pls don't post negative comments I m still in class 6 and I took some help from chatgpt and some I wrote myself

If you used AI then you should at least put credits to the AI

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Hey girl, no worries. Great stuff. Just maybe, format your paragraphs a bit better. You've pasted it as one entire paragraph rather than segregating lines.
Also, it's okay to use ChatGPT, as long as you give credit for it at the end of your post.