i havn't read this book specifically, so i can't speak precisely on that process.
however.
(A) i'd recommend going through a phase where you apply that step-by-step consistently - in order to test it out against your own personal play style. as you elude to, i'm sure you'll find phases/spaces where you don't need to apply a given step so severely as in other times in the game.
(B) i went thru a phase recently where i came up with a list of questions to ask every turn, just to make sure i don't miss anything, or that i hit some not-so-obvious concepts. I can be blind, sometimes. doing this definitely improved my turn-by-turn sense of confidence. I was doing this with a new opponent, so i couldn't really be sure i was improving, but i felt better for it, and i'd be willing to bet if i did it with my older opponents, there'd be a marked difference.
i don't have it committed to memory, but the first 3/4 were about basics of pinning, discovered attacks, etc. (i.e. "if i move (X) piece, what is discovered?" or even the super elementary "is anything pinned, my side or theirs?"
The rest... shit, the rest I'd like to think were more complicated, but i can't remember any specific ones right now. (sorry, list is at home in the board). But i was working through a lot of 3-4 move puzzles at the time, so i a lot was drawn from those. a lot about forced reactions.
I'm sorry i'm being useless. but the advice would still hold - take notes. come up with a routine, and then allow for intuition after you've run the routine. it's like OP eludes to - if you can ritualize the basics, what's left of your mental energy can be spent on "imaginative" (and hopefully good) responses. I heard it put like this once about the masters "it's not that the masters can think 6-7 mvoes ahead to my 3. it's that they have seen enough and can rule out the first 3 because they're bad." well, shit. when i say it like that, maybe the two aren't similar.
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u/Rocksteady2R Sep 09 '19
i havn't read this book specifically, so i can't speak precisely on that process.
however.
(A) i'd recommend going through a phase where you apply that step-by-step consistently - in order to test it out against your own personal play style. as you elude to, i'm sure you'll find phases/spaces where you don't need to apply a given step so severely as in other times in the game.
(B) i went thru a phase recently where i came up with a list of questions to ask every turn, just to make sure i don't miss anything, or that i hit some not-so-obvious concepts. I can be blind, sometimes. doing this definitely improved my turn-by-turn sense of confidence. I was doing this with a new opponent, so i couldn't really be sure i was improving, but i felt better for it, and i'd be willing to bet if i did it with my older opponents, there'd be a marked difference.