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Manoale60's avatar

Simple and fantastic story, congratulations!!!

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Nick Vasquez, MD's avatar

Thank you!

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Sholmes's avatar

The right thinking process is your mantra. 1) Threat assessment: after Ne5 was done, we should have integrated the squares threatened by this knight.

2) Choice of candidate move.

3) Safety test: Is my move safe? Obviously not, since c6 is not protected. Is it annoying if this pawn is captured? Obviously yes, because of a dangerous fork. So my move is not good. My knight must therefore not be moved. So, I still need to improve my opening position: by considering other pieces, even if Ne5 is intrusive and will have to be dealt with later (or not!). This habit of following these steps is complicated when you are a little pushy or too sure of yourself.

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Nick Vasquez, MD's avatar

You’re not wrong. For some reason though I really struggle remembering to remember the steps. I find I need something to slow me down on purpose

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Beat's avatar

Great! Worth Reading again and again…

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Fred's avatar

Amazing content! You should write a book summarising all your articles, seriously!

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Nick Vasquez, MD's avatar

Good idea!

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Southernrun's avatar

Another great post. The information about what changes based on the vacated square is very informative as it’s so easy to only follow where the piece goes and what it’s doing. Difficult to out this into practice but maybe the addition of the point and call can be helpful. Thanks for your effort to keep writing as always enjoyable

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Nick Vasquez, MD's avatar

It does

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Carles BRUGAROLAS MANZANEQUE's avatar

truth hurts :-)

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