Determining Candidate Move Safety By Dan Heisman Quote of the Month: “Whenever you think you have lost the meaning of life, look around you for those in need of your help and you shall find it.” I consider the most important issue on a chess board to be safety (off the board it is having fun, but that’s another story...). Students often cite after a lost game: “...I lost because I missed a tactic...” ...whereupon I usually provide a follow-up question, which they did not consider... “That’s ambiguous: Did you mean that you missed, and thus allowed, a tactic for the opponent that won the game for him, or did you fail to see a tactic for you that would have won, or saved the … [Read more...]