Basically:
1)Don't make enmpty threats that he can defend unless it strengthen you're position or weakens his.
2) For clarity that means avoid traps.
3) Only make moves that strengthen your position or weaken his.
4) Before you make a move ask yourself "What wonderful thing does this do for my position, even if he plays the best move?" If you can't answer well, then you probably shouldn't play it.
5) Always play with a plan, don't hope mindlessly from threat to threat.
I think thats what you were trying to say (with a bit of my own thoughts added in)
Hi chess.com fans, this following was one of my posts to a different thread in which the idea of playing chess by making continuous threats had been talked about, you are welcome to comment on the issue..
actually I was doing some thought on the fact that nowdays it seems very common to face chess players who play chesss by making forcing moves right out of the opening, this "out of the opening forcing playing style" is something which was unusual from players from the 1970s-80s and earlier years, it almost seems that with the intruduction of chess programs younger players's style of play started to resemble the way many computers play (which is in no way the best way to play chess), even computers nowdays have been programmed in a fashion that is transforming its playing style into a more human like logical way of playing chess, computers nowdays will follow opening variations before starting to play forcing moves right out of the opening, I myself don't play any games other than chess, but I can tell you that to make forcing move after forcing moves in chess is something which really does not apply/work in chess as it would do in some other type of strategic games with less room for imaginative and creative play, there are many variations in chess which strength is founded on allowing one of the players to go for early pawn grabbing.. etc, ex: like in the poison pawn varition of the Najdorf which Rybka programmers used succesfully several times, I believe that playing chess by playing forcing moves all the time even when your opponent can successfully defend against your threats is rather of not good taste/smart, the game is chess, a game full of room for creativity unlike tic tac toe, checkers or for that matter any other cut and dry strategic game out there, I think a forcing move should only be played when the position requires for that type of play and not otherwise, I don't think chess should be played like computers do by calculating through forcing variations that many times were not calculated correctely, no even computers can do chess calculations 100% accurate if they could chess would be calculated to a draw, which is not possible for it to happen, computers still lose and will keep losing to each other at chess so will we humans, so... why play chess like stupid chess machines?, I don't see a reason for killing chess creativity in favor of a dry and ugly playing style.., if I am going to keep losing and winning at chess anyways I rather do it as far away from " 2+2=4 " as possible since " 2+2=4 " is not nessesarily true/constant fact in chess ..
this following is how a sentense in your mind will sound like while playing cut and dry chess:
let me threat to take that pawn and when he defends it I will make that other threat over there and then that other one, and when he makes that threat I will defend it this way and then make that other threat over there...
a very ugly sentence indeed!, I don't want that thing in my head while playing chess