Alp has better discipline than I do. My tactical vision is intermediate and my coach recommends I solve puzzles 1.5 hrs per day and I currently maybe do 10 minutes.
Eventually I intend to practice memory palace based chess calculation and then I will be a lot more motivated to spend a lot of hours solving puzzles.
Best practice calculation players review the position for all candidate moves and briefly calculate each superficially. They use this initial step to then prioritize and fully calculate lines.
I intend to place a person in a memory palace as a marker for each superficial variation I need to calculate doing the action that relates to the square I need to calculate then loop back through each person. If more variations need to be calced during deep calcs I will add more placeholder people without breaking from my current line.
In this position during superficial calcs white needs to check all checks, captures and threats so without deep diving anything you would start by saying “I need to calculate BxN, RxR, QxN and on BxN it opens up Qg5+ so I need to calc BxN-Qg5+, BxN-Rxd6, QxN-Rxd6, RxR-Qx, RxR-Rx, RxR-Kx.”
Then I would prioritize and fully calc each line. With mnemonics I will place 6 people (00-05 major system people) in a MP then say when I am fully calcing a forcing option enters 3-4 moves deep, I will add another person and finish my current line then come back to them. I will be able to see gaps in the chain of major people to determine who I have left to fully calc.
My lack of tactical vision is showing because I didn’t even notice Bb7 is attacking my Rh1 which adds a lot more forcing branches to calculate.
