Firas Dさんのイラストまとめ

Interesting pattern (now that I'm in the 700s range on chess .com) is that I don't have to manually check that (almost) all my pieces are defended. Like even when playing on instinct/very fast I have enough spatial awareness to not leave pieces hanging for no reason

I was thinking maybe 'pushing the line forward' like this is a good strategy but it isn't . Keeping pawns in a row is devastating at the end game (when pushing them forward for queening) but creating all that space behind your lines is not useful in the middle game

@eatpraydiehard Wednesdays vs Fridays

Another situation that nobody expects a 550-level player to figure out, but that came up in play ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I made the wrong choice and went from winning to losing... the blue arrows are the 2 next moves the computer thinks I should have made

This is what I mean about calculation getting complex at the 500s level... how am I supposed to figure out whether this opponent is going to checkmate me in the next couple moves

(The computer says that black was completely winning but eventually it was a draw through stalemate)

A pattern is that the engine always disagrees with taking these 'back rank' pieces (rooks or king) into a higher row when dodging threats in the middle-game, better to move them sideways. I guess geometrically it increases the 'surface area' of potential threats and tactics

Finally did one of those 'slam bishop into a king-adjacent pawn' moves that the computer likes to recommend... and its analysis gave it a double exclamation for 'brilliant', lol (cause I could then capture opponent's queen)

Apparently this tactic is called 'Greek gift sacrifice'

One thing I know for sure is that when someone parks their bishop near my ranks like this, they have some evil plot in mind... if you don't block/repel the bishop, you are going to suffer from some ruthless tactical combos

Yet another computer recommendation I don't understand to slam the bishop into a pawn adjacent to king ... this is definitely a pattern

Actually this move where I bring the knight to protect the f pawn when they move their queen back is not something I figured out myself, or from looking at computer analysis... I got it from a Youtube video. So studying lessons from other people is definitely a thing in chess