1) I am finding it difficult to visualise more than 2 moves ahead as I am an amateur. what can I do to improve my visualisation skills ?
A key question to which nobody seems to have the answer. I've been experimenting with this by a divide-and-conquer method. If you start with only units with limited range and motions, like with only two pawns (and of course the two kings) on the board in a race to queen, you should have few problems, and that success should give you confidence to try more difficult positions: more units, longer ranges, more interactions, etc. With pawn race endings a trick I found that works well is to mentally call out how many more squares to go before queening. For example:
mentally advance White pawn
mentally announce "4 squares to go"
mentally advance Black pawn
mentally announce "4 squares to go"
mentally advance White pawn
mentally announce "3 squares to go"
mentally advance Black pawn
mentally announce "3 squares to go"
etc.
I'd be interested in other tricks people have developed.
1) I am finding it difficult to visualise more than 2 moves ahead as I am an amateur. what can I do to improve my visualisation skills ?
2) generally I play move to move without any strategy and wait for reducing pieces . Any suggestion for developing strategy in mind for attack in the beginning itself ?
3) I have found that I am unable to use pawns strategically to the optimum level and also cant have them well co-ordinated . Appreciate if you could suggest how to have a co-ordinated pawn structure and also how best to use pawns to defend and attack