When if ever did you guys use checklists explicitly and consciously before making moves?

If I'm honest the only time I use them in that way is when I play puzzles and look at every check, and when I am winning in an endgame and every time I identify a legal move for the opponent so I don't stalemate them.

Do you guys use a checklist all the time? Or only for some time controls? Or did you use them earlier and now you don't do it explicitly and consciously every time anymore? Obviously I'm not talking only about intuitive ideas like "its a good idea to look for checks and captures" I'm talking about a more explicit process like how airplane pilots always do a whole list before takeoff even for seemingly very obvious things.

Nope, not ever (I'd run out of time).

In Blitz, it's probably not practical, but in Rapid I often make a small list of candidate moves and take some time trying to narrow down which ones are actually good while also looking for other candidates. With practice you can do this fairly quickly as you will pick up on some common patterns (loose pieces, exposed king, various pawn structures, etc...).

In fact, I am hearing the word 'checklist' for the first time!

@chessfan124 i dont understand, what you mean about the check list, if you are talking like 1. Check the flaps, check ruder, and so on, uhm, not really. I try to understand the position on the board, see some possibilities (checks, captures, attacks), check the strategy and the tactics, make a plan to get the position which i want and follow the plan and adapt it if something "goes not as planned". A check list? Uhm, Nop. You make not a check list, but a plan and follow it. I hope this helps.

This belongs to the biggest miseducations of all times. In short: no one uses checklists in fact.

It‘s a trainers tool in order to verbalize their training costs, i.e. a „recommendation“. Alas, to no avail.

I agree with Sargon.

For me maybe just "Check and verify your candidate move by looking opponent's answers to your moves, especially checks and captures.". "Stay concentrate and positive, and keep your fighting spirit and willpower".
And "Try to find a better move when you have a good move" and "Check quickly all the moves to select candidates moves".

My two biggest mistake are :

-I dont take the time to look every move and see all candidates moves.
In this case i Just calculate variations after some candidate moves i have in my mind, without taking time to look every move (quickly) and select some of them interesting. Stay open-minded.

-Dont verify and calculate my candidate move (kotov effect or laziness). Verify check, capture and dont be lazy.

@Sarg0n I would love to use it, unfortunately you can only do that in correspondence... I think a type of chess were you can come with cheat sheets could be really fun :D Only rule would be that you aren't allowed to write specific moves or draw things, I would love some type of checklist chess :D

It‘s up to you to downvote Sarg0n and this Kramnik fellow:

17:00min

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