This might be a little difficult to explain so bear with me.
When I'm looking at the board and trying to imagine a sequence, for example Nxh6+, gxh6, Qg4+, Kf7, qh5+ etc I'm trying to imagine this sequence on the board and imagine my pieces on those squares but also trying to remember my piece is no longer on the actual square it is now so I need to remember that when calculating a line.
I really struggle with this, even 4 or 5 moves is very tough for me let alone to try and do this with 2 or 3 different lines.
Often times I end up gambling on the line because I cannot calculate it enough to see if it actually works or not. I usually find myself just playing on a move by move basis and waiting to see if my opponent will make a terrible move that I can capitalise on, I rarely ever win because I calculated a line and I win a piece at the end of it.
Calculating lines which involve exchanging off pieces is much easier because most of the time you're just recapturing or maybe you can put in an in between move but that's ok.
Calculating becomes even harder as the game progresses because there are so many vacant squares at this point my opponent could move to almost any square. How do professionals keep track of lines in their head? I've seen Kasparov calculate 4 different lines to a depth of 8 before, I can barely keep track of 1 line to a depth of 5... Not to mention grandmasters playing blindfold chess, that is unfathomable to me!
Thanks for any suggestions.
When I'm looking at the board and trying to imagine a sequence, for example Nxh6+, gxh6, Qg4+, Kf7, qh5+ etc I'm trying to imagine this sequence on the board and imagine my pieces on those squares but also trying to remember my piece is no longer on the actual square it is now so I need to remember that when calculating a line.
I really struggle with this, even 4 or 5 moves is very tough for me let alone to try and do this with 2 or 3 different lines.
Often times I end up gambling on the line because I cannot calculate it enough to see if it actually works or not. I usually find myself just playing on a move by move basis and waiting to see if my opponent will make a terrible move that I can capitalise on, I rarely ever win because I calculated a line and I win a piece at the end of it.
Calculating lines which involve exchanging off pieces is much easier because most of the time you're just recapturing or maybe you can put in an in between move but that's ok.
Calculating becomes even harder as the game progresses because there are so many vacant squares at this point my opponent could move to almost any square. How do professionals keep track of lines in their head? I've seen Kasparov calculate 4 different lines to a depth of 8 before, I can barely keep track of 1 line to a depth of 5... Not to mention grandmasters playing blindfold chess, that is unfathomable to me!
Thanks for any suggestions.