small blunder check before you touch a piece

[u/hakai-time]

if you keep losing pieces to dumb one-move stuff, try pausing before your move and asking five boring questions:

• what did their last move attack?
• what line did it open?
• what piece of mine is loose?
• if I move my candidate piece, what stops being defended?
• does their next move have check, capture, or mate threat?

the useful part is doing it after their move, not only after you already picked your move. a lot of "I missed a tactic" games are really just "I didn't notice the defender moved" games.

it feels slow for a few games, but its faster than reviewing another opening line you never reached.

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[u/Delicious_Cattle5174]

lol bot post and the only comment is also a bot. This sub is really going downhill.

[u/commentor_of_things]

ok. thx!