Xray Vision, How will it help you be a better player.

Do you even wonder how titled players see the whole board? How did they find that move? Do they calculate moves farther ahead of me? I am curious on these things and sometimes I found something peculiar on how do they make a move. Sometimes they move defensively as if the opponents piece can attack their own piece even something is blocking that attacking piece. Eureka! What will happen if somehow we see the whole board in another whole perspective? What if I could see more moves ahead of my enemy if I got a glimpse on how those beast see squares? Yes, this might be some of the light on how they see the whole thing that if you remove the limit on what all the pieces can do, you can break your opponent as if you are not bound to the rules.

We all know that piece moves but cannot leap on another piece except for knights but if we imagine that there is nothing that can stop all of the pieces we can plan something more creative. Imagine for example on the starting of the board.

At the start of the game, if you draw all of the possible moves you can make without a blockage, you can see a plan on a whole new perspective like this.

The center is the most important squares of the game but bishops only move sideways so what should you do to control the center? It is to move other pieces other than those, that is why they always moves knights before bishops on openings because they are the only piece that can access the center.

Another cool thing about this is you can find a tactic easily called x-ray. I cannot show you on this forum but you can search it for yourself.

Another things are discovered attack.

And last but not the least is somewhat I should call indirect planning. It is hard to explain because I am still new on this method but you can somehow phrase it like a make believe planning. It is like saying that if you miss a checkmate because something is blocking the opponents king you will ask yourself, "What if that piece is not there?" "What if I can remove that piece?", etc. Anyway, best of luck to all of us.