Often times I end up focusing on the piece that has moved instead of the rest of the board. I like to check things off as follows.
Can I pin anything to a stronger piece?
Can I open the center somehow?
Can I set up a discovered attack on the king?
The I look at specific pieces.
Diagonals for bishops
Files for Rooks.
And tricky forks with my knight.
Also I like to find ways to connect my knights.
Pretty beginner stuff, but then I am a beginner :)
hello to all. I am just getting into chess and it is alot of fun. I lose alot but that is ok because i have fun playing the game. But i think that I am just a little bit better than I show. I suffer from "tunnel vision"! you know, when whatever move your opponet makes has no effect whatsoever on what I was going to do. I just go on my way, when BAM! now I am losing. How? It is all because I didn't look at what my opponet did. so I need to make a mental checklist of things to do before I make my next move. I was thinking of something like this...
1.) what dose the moved piece attack?
2.) what can the moved piece attack in the near future?
3.) dose the movement "discover" an attack? In the future?
4.) Is the piece "hanging"? if so should i take it?
5.) can I "fork","pin", or "skewer" anything? Can he?
do you suffer from "tunnel vision"? would you add anything to this list? Stress importantce on one or the other?
In general, Am I missing something?