Chess Position Practice #1: Candidate Moves

This video series will focus on analyzing chess positions, and generating candidate move orders from the position without moving the pieces or using computer analysis. The goal is to improve the ability to generate lines and variations mentally during a game, and to try to come up with a move that either maintains equality on the board, or paves the way for a slight positional edge.

I recommend pausing the video at the appropriate time and generating your own candidate moves. If this is something new you are working on improving, it's recommended that you write down your lines and over time you will be able to do this all in your head during a match.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• chess
• position
• practice
• candidate
• moves
• lesson
• jrobi
• jrobichess
• tactical
• positional
• analysis
• strategy
• game

[greendogcool1]

came up with same move

[SuperEvansProduction]

with the plan on 8:22 is Ba6+ an option for m8 or am i missing something

[jocamaneiro1]

i was thinking Pb5

[ABoyDrew18]

I agree with military man...There is the simple tactic of Deflecting the night from the defense of the other night. There is really no way to counter attack or create a stronger threat, so is it not logical to defend against that?....

[RexPetrov]

i like Rf6

[cameronboy18]

At 8:14, black could check with his bishop on a6. If white blocked with his bishop on e2, black Queen to h1 would be mate. White would have to block the check with the rook or queen and black would win material.

[Chikov2]

Rf6?

[v3nin]

awesome

[bombeu]

jrobi ... nice vids btw, but for this match ... u had once a good variation that u missed simply because u didnt continue ... at 8:15 when u got the black queen to h2 and the white king was at f8 ... it was a win/win position for black with bishop to a6+ and white would have only 3 possible moves to block the mate 1- bishop to E2?? mate with Qh1

2- Qe2 or d3 ... both loosing the queen or 3 - Re2 that also fails when black plays Re8 ... so yeah not allways the GM has a good combo :)