Decision Making & Avoiding Blunders

Hello,

I am trying to help my son who has been playing chess for a while now. I am seeing that under pressure during a game, he misses some of the basic and obvious threats and make move that is a blunder!.

Eg- He pinned his opponents bishop to the queen with a rook (playing as black) overlooking the fact that, the white bishop could take a pawn and check his king, and his rooks were not connected. So, he lost a pawn and rook for a bishop.

I saw other threads that list all the points to consider while making the move. These are great points, and very useful. However, my question is, how can one internalize these steps into every single move one makes.

Many times in short 30 minute games, one may or may not have the time to go through all the list - if it is large.

Question

Has any one come up with a concise list, workflow, process of decision making before every move and some key/core steps to think in every single move. If so, that will wonderful.

Thanks,

Sunny.

I like this blog post: http://chessconfessions.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-chess-thought-process.html

@ agent_86

uber helpful!

Cheers