Thinking process
What to think about, every move, methodically.
4 articles
- What to Think on Every Move: The Complete ProtocolMost mistakes between 800 and 1400 don’t come from a lack of talent, but from a move played without a method. Here is a reusable protocol, move after move, to evaluate the position, spot threats, find candidate moves, compare them, and verify before playing.
- Managing Your Time in ChessThink long at the critical moments, play theory and obvious moves quickly, and never collapse in time trouble: learn to spend your clock like a precious budget.
- After the LossLosing is the most discussed and least studied subject in chess. Here is what has actually been measured: your strength barely drops after a defeat, but the way you play changes a great deal. Plus what helps, and what makes things worse.
- One More GamePlenty of players say they cannot stop. Nobody had ever measured it, so we did — across two hundred and sixty-five thousand games. There is no such illness; the pull is real and measurable; and the way out is not playing less.