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Evan Seghers's avatar

Great post! Very exciting to see your progress on this skill. Recently IM Rose Atwell was discussing her style of improving this skill, which is basically just spamming “chesstempo mixed” puzzles. Lots of ways to work on non tactical calculation.

Gus's avatar

always appreciate your well written articles Dr. Vasquez. Thank You

Ian Passant's avatar

Well written! This sort of thing was a (but not "only") major cause of wasted time for me, leading to persistent time trouble.

Audie's avatar

"However it allowed Qd4...." (4th paragraph)

Did you mean Qe4?

Nick Vasquez, MD's avatar

I do!! I’ll fix it

MoRE Chess's avatar

Wonderful post. Be patient with your calculation journey. It takes a lot of time for things to solidify.

Bharat Arora, CFA's avatar

Excellent article Nick. I can correlate.

Gary McNamara's avatar

Topics close to my heart. Thank you for writing about this, Nick. I disagree with almost everything you wrote here. :D