Practical Chess Calculation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- NM Dan Heisman follows-up on his earlier video on calculation with some practical examples from a typical amateur game. He discusses what part of the thought process is just analysis and what part of the analysis is calculation, with examples of how to do the calculation.
This is the corrected version with the camera outside the board, but otherwise identical to the previous video.
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NM Dan Heisman has been a full-time chess instructor since 1996 and is the author of 13 chess books, the TV show "Q&A with Coach Heisman" on Chess.com and the radio show "Ask the Renaissance Man" on the Internet Chess Club. Radio personality Howard Stern was one of Dan's students. Dan tries to answer comments on TH-cam but for a quicker, more comprehensive answer (or questions about lessons), contact Dan via email, skype, or phone via Dan's website www.danheisman.com. His Chess Tip of the Day is @danheisman on Twitter, which won the awards for "Best Twitter Feed" in 2021 and 2023 from the Chess Journalists of America. #Chess #ImproveChess #ChessInstruction #ChessThinking #ChessLesson #LearnChess #ChessImprove #ChessDecisions #ChessAnalysis #chesscalculation
Some of my other analysis videos that feature calculation include: • Chess Thinking - 5 Ess... ; • Improve Your Chess: An... • Chess: Calculating a C... • Learn Chess: The Forci... • Improve Your Chess: Qu... • Chess Thinking: Visual... . There are more via the playlist • Dan Heisman Chess Thou...
Thanks for watching! This is another video on chess calculation, following th-cam.com/video/cPGr5vW40xc/w-d-xo.html.
I love how you separate analysis from calculating!! And as always you do a wonderful job thx 🎉
Thanks, much appreciated. Well, to be accurate, in my definition calculation is part of analysis; it's the part where one is analyzing forcing sequences to see if they get the desired result (win or save material or mate, some positional means). So all calculation is part of analysis but there are other parts of analysis that don't require calculation. That's just my definition; other authors and instructors are welcome to disagree and have their own definitions; there's no official dictionary of chess to decide "final" definitions.
Recieving jeff coakleys "winning chess exercises for kids" after hearing you suggest it for tactics, hoping its more challenging than the few other begginer tactics books ive gotten through
I can assure you "Winning Chess Exercises for Kids" by Coakley is not a beginner tactics book (like Bain's or Giannatos or even my Back to Basics: Tactics)! I am a master and I found most of the exercises in Coakley's "blue book" challenging. It's not a super-advanced book, but a superb intermediate book, best that I know.
@@danheismanchess thank you sir for taking the time to answer and make these videos , sounds like tge book will be loads of fun
@@danheismanchess thanks for the reccomendation i cant put the book down, i like how each page contains an endgame, stalemate, and material position(s) as well as the mates.
Do you have a suggestion for which book i might progress to after this one?
That was an amazing video. Thank you.
Thanks, much appreciated! If you can, pass the word about my channel th-cam.com/users/danheismanchess :)
Dan, how long do you think it will be before the standard LiChess SF engine stops giving Material-based evaluations and goes to Probability-based evaluations, as discussed by IM Kaufman. (For guys like me, who have Evaluated via Material for 60 years, this is going to be a tough transition to make!)
I think LiChess is currently using Stockfish 16 (they might not tell you if it's 16.1); I am pretty sure Stockfish 16.1 does this already but I assume Stockfish 16 does as well (you can check Stockfish' web pages). So my guess is that they already are. Remember, probability-based evaluations are expressed in exactly the same "centipawn" values as the older evaluations; Larry's table shows how to convert to probability. So you can't tell just by looking at the format of the evaluation; the material-based and probability based evaluations look the same.
Maybe using arrows could have help me comprehend better
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, what makes it better for some detracts from others so it's often hard to please everyone. It's sort of like the old schoolhouse in the West where you have to teach math to all the students K-12 at the same time :) But I will definitely try to remember to use arrows if I am making a video like this aimed specifically for a level where arrows work. For example, I believe Laura Smith and I use arrows in our Intro to capturing sequences course for Chessable: www.chessable.com/can-i-take-it-a-beginners-guide-to-capturing-pieces/course/174891/
@@danheismanchessI'd also really appreciate arrows or at least a mouse cursor moving. Just a beginner looking to learn!
Great Video!!
i've always accepted that the B-pair (when Opp does not have it) is an advantage. i tried studying but it seemed a bit abstract given my experience. that is, i rarely had the skill or luck to prove any advantage ... until yesterday when my B-pair was worth 2 pts (practically forced my Opponent to trade his R for one of my Bs) rescuing a draw from a losing position.
but the strength of my B-pair was just luck. i was merely a casual observer saying, "wow! look at my bishops. good job boyz! ... perhaps i should take them out for dinner, or something."
later, i went back over the game to understand how it was happening: the positional features; the geometric relationship of my Bs; how they covered my opponent's targets, etc. super interesting.
now, with this experience, i think i'm ready to study B-pair (without it seeming so abstract), and possibly gain some skill.🙏
Thanks, much appreciated. Yes, "bishop pair" is really short for "the advantage of the bishop pair" - where "advantage" means one side has it and the other does not. So you don't have to state "...when the opponent does not have it" - that's built into the definition. GM Kaufman measured having the bishop pair as being worth a bonus of about 0.5 pawns, on average. And you are correct; as you improve, you can use/feel the power you have when the bishops are strong, but when you first start out that same advantage is there but you don't feel it as much, just as a master would feel a pawn advantage to be much more powerful than a beginner would. Hope that helps.
Did you ever play Jeremy Silman during your active career?
No, I was only active for a short time & did not play many of the players outside the East Coast. The late, great Silman did hire me to write some articles for his website, which he then gave permission for me to reprint as Chapter 10 "The Thinking Cap" in the 2nd edition of my book "The Improving Chess Thinker".
@danheismanchess Wow, you seem to love the game and one would expect that you had a long career in it. The wealth of knowledge you have is simply amazing.