If you aren't calculating a line through, then odds are something seemed right along the way. However, you should always be calculating a tactic through.
Making good moves by accident
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Zigwurst wrote: I know. I usually calculate up to eight moves ahead, but as a timesaving strategy, I sometimes stop at 4 if I don't find the move blunderful.
If you aren't calculating a line through, then odds are something seemed right along the way. However, you should always be calculating a tactic through.
It is more than occasional when I calculate half a tactical line, assume the rest just works out without bothering to check the full ramifications, then find out a move later that the line captures a bigger advantage than I thought.
I find that really weird. Does trying very hard to not blunder do that much to your game?
Is this the result of intuition and the memorization of many patterns or pure dumb luck or something else altogether?