Improving Chess Calculation

How can I improve my chess calculation strength? My calculation is too weak. And due to this I often blunder.

🤔 practice the Lichess tactical puzzles...

You can improve visualization skills a lot by playing blindfold or reading through games without a chessboard. Calculation stems from being able to hold a position in your head, draw a sequence of moves from it, see the resulting position accurately and then make an accurate assessment from that position if it’s a favorable continuation. Therefore you must be able to “see the board” without a physical board as best as possible. I found the above to be the most engaging way to develop that skill.

-Jordan

I suggest you do the forced mate puzzles. Start from mate in 2, then 3 then 4.

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If this can't then nothing can
listudy.org/en/features/blind-tactics

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To improve your chess calculation it is simple I did it so it has to be easy.

I realised that if I kept solving puzzles and did not review the puzzles I was getting wrong I'd keep making the same mistakes.

So here's the deal you have to use Lichess Puzzle Dashboard after solving for a few minutes or an hour or so.

Look at the improvement areas, try and solve those puzzle in Replay.

Then also look at the wheel 🎡 chart 📊 that shows your relative puzzle rating in each area.

Then go to puzzles and solve those theme areas that are showing up on the Puzzle dashboard as weak areas.

So solve Puzzles and Puzzle Storm but always review your failed and slow puzzles and learn to get stronger with those patterns you are weaker on. If you do this a few hundred cycles you will notice big improvement.

Good luck brother. Tell me when you become a Puzzle Candidate master like me 😂

Need training for both speed and accuracy of tactics/ puzzles.
1. Accuracy- spend unlimited time until you feel the whole puzzle plan( usually 1 min to 10 mins)
2. Speed- play thousands of blitz and bullet game to train eagle eyes in detecting puzzles.

Do some endgame puzzles as many require precise calculation (sometimes calculations that go 8+ moves deep!) but it's not as hard as there are less pieces on the board. Once you're comfortable with that you can try calculating with more pieces on the board.