FORCING MOVE VISION - LESSON ONE!

I have used the game "ALEX vs RICK" as the game to demonstrate what I would like to do for all round one games played this past Sunday - to show how certain moves were forcing and in what way they were forcing.

HERE IS OUR LIST OF "FORCING" OPTIONS:

1. CHECKS - Must be answered.

2. CAPTURES - Must be answered if we can or else we lose the endgame or - more than likely - get checkmated sooner rather than later.

3. THREATS - Threats to checkmate or threats to capture. If a player does not answer threats then the other player will carry them out and win the game.

This is the usual order in terms of "POWER" for the three classes. However one move can threaten one of these options more than once while other moves can combine two or all three FORCING / ACTIVE moves.

Time to hit the hay - the rest of the games will go up later on Thursday.
Enjoy - Coach Sean Tobin.