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How do the best chess players in the world like Magnus Carlsen always seem to find the right moves? It all comes down to a skill that every chess player needs to train hard if they want to make progress or win tournaments – calculation. Grandmasters don’t play moves and simply hope they will work – they visualise the opponent’s responses first and analyse continuations.
But there are endless moves, hundreds of possibilities and responses, right? How can someone possibly calculate all the options? The answer is that they simply do not calculate every option – only the ones that matter. We aren’t computers with endless brain power. Trying to calculate every move would be exhausting. Not only that, but tournament games aren’t endless – your clock would soon run out!
The key, explains IM Alexander Belezky in this exclusive Empire Chess preview, is to train yourself to look for the most forcing moves.
Forcing moves are the moves that force your opponent to respond. When looking at a position, find the captures with check, then look at all moves with check, then look at all moves with captures. If you learn to do this, and with practice, you’ll be able to find the winning moves in critical positions and find winning chess tactics.
If you see that a move has no benefit, you can then eradicate it from the candidate moves, waste no more time and energy looking at it, and look at the next option – the next most forcing move.
A good way to practice finding these moves, for it to become second nature, is to use chess puzzles. The more chess tactics you complete, the more this efficient calculation process becomes second nature. See, there are very good reasons why everyone always suggests practising chess puzzles as one of the main ways to improve your game!
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