A Better Way to Calculate Than Checks, Captures, Threats

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  @AdviceCabinet · 5 days ago · pinned

  My biggest hope is that you learn more than just a calculation technique from this video.<br> <br>More importantly, I hope you take away something about how to judge any chess technique.<br> <br>Once the best move is shown, your brain has a nasty habit of making the solution look obvious. A technique can therefore appear to work simply because hindsight gives you an illusion of confidence.<br> <br>Instead, a higher standard is:<br> <br>“Could this thought process genuinely have produced the move before I knew the answer?”<br> <br>For example,<br> <br>Does it start from evidence that is easy to acquire?<br> <br>Does that evidence naturally point you towards the move?<br> <br>Does it assume that you already knew which technique applied? <br> <br>When evaluating calculation techniques and thought processes in your post-game analysis, look for these gaps in the chain.<br> <br>If they exist, be suspicious of them.<br> <br>The best thinking processes don&apos;t just explain the answer beautifully after the fact. They give you a realistic path to finding it in the first place.<br> <br>All the best, <br>Azel

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  @betorka2 · 4 days ago

  i came across your channel from red panda and honestly, ive never seen someone so advanced explain chess so simply

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  @MukoGinKhenmetKrishna · 1 day ago

  Identifying targets or weaknesses as conditions for tactics is just BRILLIANT ‼️

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  @ChaseLumb · 5 days ago

  Folks still may see this as an attack against CCT methods or those who teach them. When in reality it&apos;s a shoe(CCT thinking) that no longer fit the author. So, he made some shoe&apos;s that would grow with him as he grew as a player. If you love CTT then please by all means keep using what works for you. However, I love the custom shoes the author showed me how to make.<br><br>Revolutionary concepts, industry leading production value, and an incredible use of platform. Thanks for making such an insightful video.

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  @Shronk_Glazer · 5 days ago

  You explained in 11 minutes what I couldn&apos;t figure out in WEEKS.

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  @Zoomjah · 3 days ago (edited)

  Still super thankful to your &quot;Introduction to Chess Calculation&quot; course, for introducing me to this way of thinking! I still often get lost in puzzles, and still certainly sometimes miss tactics for either side in my games... but I sure get a lot more of them right so much more efficiently, thanks to these efforts!

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  @chessplayerzero · 1 day ago

  This video is just pure <b>Diamond</b> 💎

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  @arthurrtang9670 · 5 days ago

  I like this a lot. Every time I do CCT, I spend way too much time calculating.

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  @BSAT10 · 2 days ago

  at 900 I really think this is one of the most useful video lessons I have seen

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  @stevenSTRAT1991 · 5 days ago

  For anyone considering this course, I strongly reccomend it. It gives you a systematic approach for coming up with candidate moves and honestly the endgame chapter alone was worth it. 10/10 course

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  @sammartin924 · 3 days ago

  &quot;You let the evidence point you toward the answer, rather than guess the answer and try to justify it.&quot; Pure gold.

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  @thesingingfly · 4 days ago

  For those that don&apos;t know, Advice Cabinet is a GOLDMINE of an educational chess YouTube channel, able to explain high-level concepts in such an easy, intuitive way.<br>He&apos;s up there alongside Daniel Naroditsky and ChessNetwork in terms of people who can make chess sound so beautiful and deep, yet simple to understand.

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