how do I improve my vision to look 3-5 or more moves ahead?

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jaiminsonu
I am trying to solve tactics and I figured that I can think of first 1 to 2 moves correct but then I make wrong move . How do I increase my vision to think 5 move ahead and figure out tactic? Like they gave me mate in 6 and it was not straightforward. Help me
notmtwain
jaiminsonu wrote:
I am trying to solve tactics and I figured that I can think of first 1 to 2 moves correct but then I make wrong move . How do I increase my vision to think 5 move ahead and figure out tactic? Like they gave me mate in 6 and it was not straightforward. Help me

Most of those 6 movers on Tactics Trainer are not particularly diabolical. 

This was the last one you missed.  It was only a 4 mover. It starts with black playing Rf8. You had to play white.

 

Solving it is a matter of recognizing the pattern. It says you got the first move Bc4+ right. After the tactics trainer responds with Kh8, the rest should be easy if you recognize the pattern.

jaiminsonu
Yes that’s what I mean how to recognize pattern ? Do I have to be on some kinds of ADHD meds ? Also in this it took me so much time to figure out first correct move but then 2nd move once king moved to h8 I thought I will put rook and queen on same file to check mate so I moved my rook to h file but it was not right move. I mean why it takes me so much hard to figure out ?
torrubirubi
Go to Chessable, purchase a book on tactics and learn them using spaced repetition.
You don’t have to try extremely hard to solve everything at the first time. But after seeing the answer you should go over the whole line in your mind. If you do this consequently you will improve.
ChrisWainscott
Endgame studies help greatly with calculation.
KeSetoKaiba
ChrisWainscott wrote:
Endgame studies help greatly with calculation.

I second this - I completely agree. Tactics help with calculation, but a lot of tactics are intuitive or pattern-recognition-based; endgame studies get you thinking deeply about every move. I find that I calculate longer in delicate endgames then in any other part of the chess game (unless I am calculating some forced mate sequence of course).

jaiminsonu, this puzzle is one of those forced mates (pattern-recognition for this one though). Your idea of the h-file being important was spot on (why you played Rh3), but ...h6 hangs on for Black. Sacrificing the Queen with Qxh7+ FORCES checkmate by not giving up the initiative (not allowing Black time to defend). 

Farm_Hand
jaiminsonu wrote:
this it took me so much time to figure out first correct move but then 2nd move once king moved to h8 I thought I will put rook and queen on same file to check mate so I moved my rook to h file but it was not right move. I mean why it takes me so much hard to figure out ?

That's how improvement works. You work and work and work and try so hard, and fail.

Then you look at the answer and learn.

If you do this every day, then years later you will be a good player. This is how it works for everyone.

As a tip, for tactics you need to look for forcing moves. The 2nd move Rh3 is a threat, but black can defend. You have to consider forcing moves no matter how suicidal. Qxh7 is the most forcing, so you must consider it..

Farm_Hand

Yes, well, in the past my verbosity was rivaled only by the mighty Elubas whose walls of text were rumored to bring entire nations to their knees.

But I have tried, over the years, to cut my posts down.

staples13

I very very very rarely almost never calculate 5 moves ahead in the middlegame

Farm_Hand

Yeah, 5 full moves (10 ply) is rare.

Although beginners usually mean 5 ply (2.5 moves) which I calculate on practically every turn.

blueemu
jaiminsonu wrote:
Yes that’s what I mean how to recognize pattern ?

Back when I used to teach chess (decades ago), I would teach the tactics in "family groups".

There is a whole family of tactics and mates based on the weak back rank, another group based on the broken fianchetto or weak color complex, another group based on the advanced Pawn on f6, etc.

Here are a few of the latter group (mates based on an advanced Pawn on f6), with the easiest ones first:

 

ChessianHorse
I calculated 10 ply once in a tournament game. I was very satisfied that we reached one of
the exact positions I had calculated. Unfortunately, I had missed my opponent’s next move and later lost :(
drmrboss

@Bluemu, This puzzle is wrong. Black lose because black played Kh8??.

Why not black play Qd8!!! That should be draw.null

Arglure

 

@blueemu

Yes, and the third one is even worse. Stockfish gives a -3 evaluation after 2..Qxc3!

drmrboss

So, Bluemu failed 2/3 his own puzzles. (66% failed rate, lol)

See, O.P, dont get upset, it is not you alone. The other people also failed after 2- 3 moves. 😂😁😅

cyboo
What is the answer to the first tactics problem that notmtwain posted? I really bad at this kind of thing.
Farm_Hand
cyboo wrote:
What is the answer to the first tactics problem that notmtwain posted? I really bad at this kind of thing.

Bc4 Kh8 Qxh7 Kxh7 Rh3 with mate to follow.

 

Bc4 Bd5 Nxd5 and the threat is Nxe7 or Nf6 double check with Qxh7 mate next move, but also the knight is immune to capture due to the first line, so white will either win the queen or give checkmate.