![]() While experienced players consider this absurd, we have to keep in mind that you make a lot of mistakes when you first start out (I certainly have done this). They become blind to their opponent’s position, only seeing their own pawns and pieces. They think “all I have to do is move this piece here, that piece there, followed by another piece to another square” and they win material or the game. They look at the position and see a possible attack that garners them material or checkmate. Calculation only works if you think about both sides of the board.īeginners don’t think about their opponent’s potential moves when calculating their own. ![]() Real chess calculation requires anticipating the best possible move your opponent can make and going forward from there. What the student was actually saying is that they are calculating their three or four next moves but not those of their opponent! That’s a big problem since their opponent will most likely make a single move that derails the student’s plans. While you might say “hey, this Patterson fellow must be a great chess teacher if his students can do that in such a short period of time,” but sadly you’d be wrong. I’ve had a student say, after studying with me for only a few months, that he can calculate three or four moves in advance in any given position. Calculation in chess means thinking ahead in terms of moves, not just yours but those of your opponent. Calculation is one of the most difficult concepts the beginner must learn in order to play winning chess.
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