Look for forcing moves first (Checks, captures and attacks).
It's hard to explain in text form. Most likely you could find instructive videolessons on Youtube.
I remember, John Bartholomew has several videolessons where he's solving puzzles on chesstempo. He's explaining his thought process well.
Look for forcing moves first (Checks, captures and attacks).
It's hard to explain in text form. Most likely you could find instructive videolessons on Youtube.
I remember, John Bartholomew has several videolessons where he's solving puzzles on chesstempo. He's explaining his thought process well.
I found this video of Bartholomew solving puzzles on lichess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFNAvpiDEBg
What I struggle with is, 15 minutes in when he's doing the normal puzzles, I'm unable to visualize more than about three moves ahead. Even when he's explaining it, I find it hard to follow unless I can literally see it on the board. So for me it was more about visualization than about understanding tactics.
There is this video series from IM Alex Astaneh for practicing visualization.
In Part 1 he speaks 3 moves (6 half moves) ahead before showing it on the board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSHBceKlJiY
In Part 3 he again speaks 4 moves (8 half moves) ahead before showing it on the board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98QNKnUPJeQ
In Part 3 he again speaks 4 moves (8 half moves) ahead before showing it on the board:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPLboPLJRGs
How many hours practice does it take to get good at chess visualization?
Is there a lot of variation between different players or does everyone struggle to begin with?
Is it easier if you start practicing at an earlier age?
On the chess.com vision trainer I score 13 on coordinates, 9 on moves. Is this good or bad? What do the great players score?
I was making good progress on the puzzles, but recently I seem to have regressed. I am not sure why, but when I fail I get some benefit from looking at the computer analysis and learning how my selected move is inferior to the solution.
I am wondering whether you have any general advice on how to reason about chess puzzles. What sort of thought processes should you go through before deciding on a move?