A. On opponent's clock: planning
- Assess imbalances
- Am I playing to win or draw?
- Revise my plan
- Detect opponent's plan
- Absorb surprises
- Finish planning
- Anything undone?
- What does the last move threaten/allow?
- New imbalances
- Candidate moves
- counter threats
- further my plan
- hinder opponent's plan
- Evaluate candidates
- Final Blunder check
To practice this I am using Fritz's sparring mode. In this mode, Fritz keeps track of the amount of time used, so I know how I am a doing against a time control, but there is no sudden death.
Fritz moves very quickly in the difficulty mode I have selected, so I need to do the whole method on my clock. Once I am using the whole method on every move, I will then try to improve my speed, so I fit in a time control. Hopefully, I will still use most of my time on evaluating candidates.
Here is a position where I really blew it. I am to play, and black just moved b5.
I was so fixated on what I wanted to do, that I missed that my rook was under attack. Without thinking, I moved Be6?? which would have been a great move, except that my rook is under attack.
With a little thought, I could have maintained the pressure with Rc7, or gone into a winning endgame with the exchange of R+B for Q+P with Rxf7
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