Feel free to lose interest in this post, I expect that it will be fairly simplistic. My intent is to place over time some things that I have learned in chess tactical training, books and play here.
Chess is a visual game.
It's helpful to know and see elementary patterns.
Seeing can occur on different levels.
ie. If a rook attacks a queen you see it and you do things to avoid it's capture . This is L1 -level one thinking,
L2- Level 2 thinking puts things in additional context of the position such as the rook attack is illusionary because it cant moved because it is pinned or defends a square that prevents checkmate. This is I am thinking as the footnotes of the position,
L3- Level 3 thinking may show in the position the pin can be removed, can support a piece moving next to the opposing king or a the pinner can be deflected.
From doing thousands of problems thousands of times I have come up with some pretty trivial observations that speed the solution.
If you have a bishop pointing to an eighth rank square and a rook lined up with that square move heaven and earth to get the rook there. but Calculate first.
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