Check, Capture , and Attack
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I want to pose a question. Is it a good strategy to follow the check , capture , and attack method when deciding to how to make your next move? What other strategies or thought processes should go through one’s head before making a move?
Nov 12, 2021
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What do you mean by this? As in always look for those moves first? To that question - yes. Live by that and you won't miss many wins
A vast amount has been written about this. Good references for beginners are the writings of Dan Heisman (for example: https://www.danheisman.com/articles-by-subject.html lots of this is behind a paywall, tho) and The Amateur's Mind by Silman.
A few positional things to consider:
- Making your pieces more active
- Improving your pawn structure or weakening your opponent's (e.g., creating or preventing doubled pawns, isolated pawns, and passed pawns)
- Creating and controlling open files for your rooks and queen
- Trading a knight for a bishop (or vise-versa, depending on the position)
- Preventing your opponent from castling
One thing I have been trying to add to my thought process lately…. when you are contemplating moving a piece pay attention to what it will no longer be doing when you move it. It is easy to overlook this. Everyone sees what the piece will be doing that’s new.
Nov 12, 2021
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Ubik42 wrote:
One thing I have been trying to add to my thought process lately…. when you are contemplating moving a piece pay attention to what it will no longer be doing when you move it. It is easy to overlook this. Everyone sees what the piece will be doing that’s new.
Ah man! I can’t even remember the check, capture, threaten mantra. Now this too? 🤣 I’m gonna try it out though. Thanks.
Nov 12, 2021
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alvarezlvn86 wrote:
I want to pose a question. Is it a good strategy to follow the check , capture , and attack method when deciding to how to make your next move? What other strategies or thought processes should go through one’s head before making a move?
I tend to find my moves backwards.
That is, instead of (or perhaps, in addition to) looking at what I can do, I try to visualize the end goal: what position or arrangement of pieces do I WANT to have?
Then I try to "draw a straight line" between my current position and the desired position, and with that guideline in mind I start looking for a few candidate-moves to analyze.
The "I-go-here, he-goes-there" stuff tends to happen LAST.
Did you want me to post a sample game?
Yes. Anything to help change my faulty thought process
Nov 12, 2021
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Here's a game where I found the correct piece maneuver by working backwards from the goal rather than working forward from the current position:
Jul 28, 2023
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can someone show how to use the cca method in a chess game? Idk I just forget about it in games and play some random move 
i play a random movve bruh i just forget about cca
i like to have a random wheel pick my piece, a random wheel pick the letter a-h, and a random wheel pick number 1-8. Works pretty well
Oct 20, 2024
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Always scan the board for these immediate tactical opportunities first. But don’t move impulsively; even if you find a possible check or capture, consider the broader consequences.
I find my way of thinking is almost disturbingly non-linear. I tend to get a vague idea of where I want to go, then cycle through a series of possible moves in no particular order until I find something useful. If there's a problem, I cycle through some alternative variations of that move until I find something that works. The problem is, I don't know exactly how I come up with my plans, or exactly how I figure out what the best moves are. It's mostly a large amount of input data that I collect, sift through, then combine in random ways until it works, with data including general opening principles, blog posts or forum posts I vaguely remember, advice from others, or YouTube videos. It's utter chaos, and I don't know if it helps, but that's how I do it.