How To Calculate Chess Tactics Are you able

How To Calculate Chess Tactics

Are you able to think three moves ahead in chess? It's harder than it sounds, but you can learn to do it. Once you learn this visualization exercise, you will realize you can calculate much further ahead than you ever thought you could, and you won't settle for less the next time you play chess!

Play the following moves, moving for each side. MOVE WHITE BLACK 1. e 4 E 5 2. Bc 4 Qf 6 3. Nf 3 Qg 6 4. Nc 3 Qxg 2 Watch the moves

Play the following moves, moving for each side. MOVE WHITE BLACK 1. e 4 E 5 2. Bc 4 Qf 6 3. Nf 3 Qg 6 4. Nc 3 Qxg 2 Watch the moves When there is the small letter x, it means capture. So the queen has captured the pawn on g 2.

Begin the exercise. Though you will be calculating white one's move, you will be visualizing for both sides.

Analyze what has happened first.

The queen has taken a pawn.

It's not good to lose pieces or pawns willy-nilly, but it's also not generally a good idea to move the same piece twice in the opening, nor to move the queen out first, as she is such a powerful piece that she becomes a target and can get trapped.

Greed can also get you into trouble, especially if you go attacking before your pieces are developed.

Also there is a saying, "Loose pieces fall off, meaning that pieces that are not protected can become targets of fancy tactics.

So knowing these things, let's see if you can find a way to punish black.

Calculate.

Find five candidate moves. Go down the branch of just one of them. This is what it means to calculate three moves ahead.

You don't just pick one move and follow it. You pick as many as you can, and then analyze each one, finding the best possible moves for your opponent as you can, and seeing if you have a good response to it.

There is a rule among strong chess players that says "Look at all checks and captures. " There is a move here that satisfies both. https: //www. wikihow. com/Become-a-Better. Chess-Player

There is a move here that satisfies both. Look for a moment at the board and see if you can figure out what it is, and then go on to the next step. But first look for it.

Start to visualize.

Start to visualize. Did you find Bxf 7? That's the one. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. So now comes the visualization part. Don't touch the pieces - do this in your mind. Visualize what the board is going to look like after you play Bxf 7. See the piece there. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. While visualizing the piece there, ask "what are all of black one's options for getting out of check? ". How many are there? 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. That's right, there are three: 1. The king can capture the bishop on f 7 2. He can move to where the queen used to be, on d 8. 3. He can move forward one square to e 7. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. Visualize the king capturing the piece on f 7. See in your mind the new position after these two moves have been made. Hold the image in your mind as clearly as you can. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. Next ask what white can do from here. What moves can white make in this new position where black one's king is on the f 7 square? 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. Name several possible moves, and look for one that checks because you always want to look at all checks and captures first. See anything good? 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. You could check by Ng 5 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. You could check by Ng 5 but there is a problem with that. The queen is guarding that square and will capture. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. So how can you move the queen away. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. So how can you move the queen away. How about put the rook on the g-file? Visualize the Rook moving to g 1. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. So how can you move the queen away. How about put the rook on the g-file? Visualize the Rook moving to g 1. Now where can the queen go? 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. So how can you move the queen away. How about put the rook on the g-file? Visualize the Rook moving to g 1. Now where can the queen go? Only one square. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. So how can you move the queen away. How about put the rook on the g-file? Visualize the Rook moving to g 1. Now where can the queen go? Only one square. Visualize the queen moving to h 3. Now you can check with the knight. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Start to visualize. So how can you move the queen away. How about put the rook on the g-file? Visualize the Rook moving to g 1. Now where can the queen go? Only one square. Visualize the queen moving to h 3. Now you can check with the knight. Notice anything else about Ng 5? That's right, it's a fork. You win the queen. So you sacrificed the bishop to win the queen. Not bad. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H

Keep practicing. After trying this exercise, you will have visualized three moves ahead for one move. In a real game, aim to analyze more than one move. Go through this process for each of the moves that you are considering. The further you are able to go, and the more vividly and accurately you are able to visualize the positions two or three, or even four moves ahead, the better chess player you will become.

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Visualize the activity, event, or result desired. Think "what you see is what you get" and be ready for creativity and mind synthesis to take the lead. Close your eyes and picture it. It is the only thing that exists in this world right now. Everything else is darkness. • Let's say you want to envision that you get a promotion. Imagine your brand new office with your name in gold-emblazoned letters on the door. Imagine the black, swivel chair behind your huge mahogany desk. Imagine the Renoir reproduction between your diplomas. Once you cover the big stuff, get smaller. Get down to the dust in the corners. The residue of the coffee in your mug. The way the light hits the carpeting as it peeks through the slats in the blinds.

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Move your imagination into the real world. After you have spent a moment, day, month, or even years visualizing your goal, shift to focus mode. Right before you perform the activity, task, or event that will achieve an outcome or an outcome toward your goal, focus clearly on the picture of the action you are about to make. Even if it's something intangible like "make more money" and it's applicable to the everyday, it can be used before going to work or each business possibility. • For example, if you are trying to hit a ball, picture hitting it clearly in your mind, stroke by stroke, at the right height and the right speed. Watch the ball being hit by your instrument, flying through the air and landing wherever it is meant to land. Add all senses to the experience -- hearing the approaching ball, hearing and feeling the impact, smelling the grass. Then do it for real!

Remind yourself of the importance of slowing down. Visualization only works when you are calm, at ease, and willing to give yourself time to focus in peace, free from immediate worries. Visualization is a technique very close to meditation, only it is more active and vivid. In visualization you are encouraged to think actively about the possibilities but as with meditation you must leave aside anything extraneous to your dreams and goals and only focus on them. So whatever you're actively imagining, relax. Stay calm. There's no rush. • If you can, make yourself comfortable. Having very few distractions (cell phone, TV, temperature control, pre-holiday pants on a postholiday waistline) will make this process a lot easier. It'll help you think more relaxed, too, when less is going on around you.

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Move White Black 1. e 4 E 5 2. Bc 4 Qf 6 3. Nf 3 Qg 6 4. Nc 3 Qxg 2