Increase your rating using "Idiot check"

Timmy62 you are correct. I should call this technique idiot time out maybe rather than idiot check.

Before making your chosen move take a 5 second time out to make sure your move does not lose immediately to a simple tactic.

To summarize:

My own OTB thinking process:

1. Why did my opponent make that move and what will he do next?

2. Are there tactics available to me in this position.

3. If not immediate tactics, think strategically for a plan (Silman imbalance technique)

4. Come up with candidate moves and evaluate each one

5 Before playing the most promising candidate move do a quick "idiot check" to make sure my move does not immediatley lose to a simple tactic or forcing move.

I thought you had discovered some magical check that would make people resign! Dissapointed! Please take more care in creating your topics from now on

I have a lot of these but they only work in bullet and only about 80% of the time.