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7Q Method: Your Roadmap to Formulating Chess Plans in Any Position

the best article i read in lichess

the best article i read in lichess

@Hamilton44goat said in #3:

the best article i read in lichess
true

@Hamilton44goat said in #3: > the best article i read in lichess true

Very very good article. I'm a bit surprised why the number of comments and views isn't much.

Very very good article. I'm a bit surprised why the number of comments and views isn't much.

Thorough, substantive article with numerous examples. Appreciate the time you put in finding proper exercises.

Thorough, substantive article with numerous examples. Appreciate the time you put in finding proper exercises.

The first question I have after reading this article: "Are there any better questions than the 7 he gave me?"

:-D

Shereshevsky would agree, according to him the most important question is: "Am I being a fool here?"

I realised there are not a lot of questions focussing on prophylaxis. For instance, the last exercise could have been solved with prophylaxis alone once you realise that the combined threats of g3+ and Nd6-e4 are potentially catastrophic.

Although I noticed that instead of being negative about the opponent's threats, Avetik instead prefers to focus on the positivity in the own position. Must be part of this whole "Mood" thing. :-)

Sorry Avetik, I'm only mean because I love you. ;-)

The first question I have after reading this article: "Are there any better questions than the 7 he gave me?" :-D Shereshevsky would agree, according to him the most important question is: "Am I being a fool here?" I realised there are not a lot of questions focussing on prophylaxis. For instance, the last exercise could have been solved with prophylaxis alone once you realise that the combined threats of g3+ and Nd6-e4 are potentially catastrophic. Although I noticed that instead of being negative about the opponent's threats, Avetik instead prefers to focus on the positivity in the own position. Must be part of this whole "Mood" thing. :-) Sorry Avetik, I'm only mean because I love you. ;-)

Very informative. Thankyou very much for your time and hardwork :)

Very informative. Thankyou very much for your time and hardwork :)

@lampiopasa said in #5:

I thought same. It's quality content with numerous examples but still underrated.

@lampiopasa said in #5: > I thought same. It's quality content with numerous examples but still underrated.

An excellent read and the examples were perfect. However, I'm a little wary of the 'checklist' approach to chess outside correspondence chess as there just isn't time to go through questions in a real game like this.

Strong players arrive at the correct moves through pattern recognition and then checks and calculations around those. The checklist approach is OK for a stop gap, but it's just better in the long run to feed yourself lots and lots of patterns via good examples.

What I want from a strategy book is 500/600/700 examples like in the blog with brief commentary after each and then to go over the book many times over. This way these ideas should (hopefully) become second nature without the need for any questions at all.

An excellent read and the examples were perfect. However, I'm a little wary of the 'checklist' approach to chess outside correspondence chess as there just isn't time to go through questions in a real game like this. Strong players arrive at the correct moves through pattern recognition and then checks and calculations around those. The checklist approach is OK for a stop gap, but it's just better in the long run to feed yourself lots and lots of patterns via good examples. What I want from a strategy book is 500/600/700 examples like in the blog with brief commentary after each and then to go over the book many times over. This way these ideas should (hopefully) become second nature without the need for any questions at all.