Lesson #1: How To Tackle A Chess Position?

In this very first lesson I will to teach you how to go from first assessing a chess position to the final choice of a chess move.

Let me start by making an important note. What I want to avoid in the Better Your Chess lessons is to give you enormous lists of questions - algorithms if you like - that you can ask yourself in a specific order to perfectly end up with the right move for the position. This way of asking questions is tiring and impractical. The main idea however is never to try and just play moves! You have to try and make the course of your thoughts logical. Having said that let’s look at how the proces might work from a global point of view in the video below. I say might, because there is not just one perfect way of doing this, and we all differ. But hey, I will show you how I do it, because that’s why you are here.

[playing length: 12 min]