Name: How To Calculate In Chess
Uploaded: 2025-04-01T00:54:02.000Z
Duration: 32 min 2 s
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's no secret that chess is a pretty hard game, and one of the most important skills is calculation.

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Calculation is the process of coming up with good ideas for yourself and realizing your opponent's best move in the process, going down a few moves, evaluating the position, coming back, and making a decision.

Or for my under 1,000 players, it's not hanging a piece in one move.

In this video, I'm going to get you thinking on the right track about how to calculate better as a chess player so you will understand videos like this.

Bishop b2, king e2, bishop d2, king d2, b5, e3. g8, I take.

You will learn concepts like the checklist, which is figuring out what your opponent wants to do, looking for your forcing moves, checks, captures, and attacks.

And you will also learn the advanced concept of the process, which is coming up with an idea, finding a negative verdict with it, either fixing it or discarding it, evaluating a position, coming all the way back, and choosing between two options.

We're going to do a lot of different fun things.

And I don't really know what the rating cutoff here is necessarily.

I'm just going to say it like the ceiling is 1,000.

But some of the 1,100s and 1,200s watching might also benefit from this.

We're going to start introducing the concept of the checklist.

But as a beginner, you need to minimize your one-move damage.

You need to evaluate what's under attack and what you can do of the one-move nature for both yourself and your opponent.

Then we're going to solve some exercises based on this kind of stuff.

It's slightly better in this position to play E6 so that you don't get hit with this move, E5.

As far as I'm concerned, this is totally okay.

Now, Knight to H5 is kind of the first inaccuracy.

Opening knowledge and understanding how to get out of the opening is not calculation.

You need to have a good opening set of fundamentals, okay?

Here, Black is able to kind of mitigate the fact that they don't have such a great position.

This move drastically weakens this Knight.

So the first thing that I'm thinking of in this position is to bring in this Bishop because that pins the Knight.

And it's very difficult to defend because, for example, if Queen to d2, how do we apply more pressure here?

Like, you take the Knight, and then it's like this and this is all falling apart.

Now, what's harder here is what to do after Bishop to d2.

This is where it gets a little bit tricky.

And this is where we start applying that checklist.

Well, the opponent is just defending their Knight.

I have this, but that doesn't do anything.

That undefends the d4 pawn, which is hard to see.

But that will add an attacker to this and to that.

This is where you have to pay extra attention.

But if I look at one more forcing move, I attack their Knight as well.

If they take my Knight, I take their Knight.

But even better, we're probably going to win a second pawn.

And there is even a chance that we win a Rook.

So when you have these one-movers, beginners, you can immediately swarm weaknesses if they are available.

We will do positions later in this video which are not this simple.

That don't have these immediate ramifications.

Not a terrible move, but Bishop b4 was obviously a lot stronger.

But Black finds a move kind of following along with their plan, which attacks the Knight on c3.

But how are you going to save the Queen and the Knight?

Okay, so you're not going to save either of them.

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