Comments on https://lichess.org/@/mattydperrine/blog/the-4-questions-strong-players-ask-on-every-move-that-you-probably-skip/WaE0weYc
@MattyDPerrine
Interesting. Here's some feedback for you Matty:
>Here’s what I’ve noticed after years of coaching and playing: the players who improve fastest aren’t necessarily the ones grinding the most puzzles or memorizing the deepest opening theory. They’re the ones who have a reliable mental checklist they run through on every single move. When that checklist becomes automatic, blunders drop dramatically and tactics flow
Intriguing observation! How do you know that the ones who improve fastest are the ones who have a reliable mental checklist?
Did you ask them? Also where did they get the mental checklist from? Because if it came from you, shouldn't all your students have a 'reliable mental checklist' (assuming you're a good coach). -- just pulling your leg with that last statement Matty! **;)**
>(c) Opponent’s plan: Nothing is really jumping out here. Maybe White wants to play Qd7 but we can cross that bridge if it happens.
Did you become a FM by **'crossing that bridge if it happens'? ;)**
Some more elaboration would be good here from you.
Also did you know you can put study links in the blog as an embed? Just telling you this in case you don't know.
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Overall I'd say this was a decent blog. Nothing too novel of course, but a serviceable attempt at delivering a variation on a theme.
A suggestion for future blogs is focusing on explaining specific chess concepts in order to distinguish yourself.
You can see blogs like the ones covering queen sacs and other explaining pawn structures by fellow titled players. That would be a good idea for you. Cos you're an FM, and it would be more useful to have such instructive explanations. Blogs like this are all right, but its a bit generic and is a topic that has been covered many times.
Of course, it's up to you in the end, just a suggestion.
*P.S.* Don't forget to include the advertising warning as you promoted your site in the blog.
You added the label after I told you last time but you seem to have forgotten again! Just a friendly reminder Matty! **;)**
Wow, this is easily the most passive-agressive answer I have read in a long time!
To be honest I found the blog post very interesting and thought-provoking.
Of course it does not invent something fundamentally new, but it proposes a concrete framework how to improve the thinking process and even how to classify mistakes from games.
Really not bad if you ask me!
Very helpful, thanks !
As someone who struggles with keeping an order when thinking in a chess game this resonates a lot.
Would you say applying this checklist in blitz/bullet comes down to making this mental checklist a habit for so long that it comes as second nature? Or are these two formats an entire different thing?
Very useful checklist thank you so much.
@IEscanor said:
> Very helpful, thanks !
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> As someone who struggles with keeping an order when thinking in a chess game this resonates a lot.
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> Would you say applying this checklist in blitz/bullet comes down to making this mental checklist a habit for so long that it comes as second nature? Or are these two formats an entire different thing?
Yes, it will be hard to apply this thinking process in blitz/bullet games at first and I would recommend practicing it in rapid games or when solving puzzles first. However, once you've gotten the thinking process down then it can definitely work in blitz/bullet games, though it might be easier to rely on intuition when the time control so short!
good blog, hope it will make me better (I try it against a friend irl TODAY)
Very good article/framework, kudos!
@fallboss007 said:
> good blog, hope it will make me better (I try it against a friend irl TODAY)
I still lost but I think there are good things to try
The basic idea is not completely new, but how you broke down the steps and combined it with the questions (did I miss it? / Got it wrong?) is very good. Thanks for that! I can use it when I analyze games of chessfriends.