Techniques to calculate better Part II

As explained in the first part of this series, it’s only necessary to calculate, in positions where there’s forced variants and possibilities are limited, as it’s impossible to calculate unlimited, in these situations the first logical step is to select a series of candidate moves, so we immediately conclude that to calculate well we need to select good candidates moves, this process is extremely important and has techniques that will help you to improve it.

One of the first authors to name the candidates moves was Kotov in his famous book "Think Like a Grandmaster", however Kotov proposed creating a complicated "tree of variants" which is inefficient. I believe that in chess there are no "kitchen recipes" and on the contrary it is the orderly and logical thought that will lead us to success.

Many times in order to find good candidates we need to have good "candidate ideas", these "candidate ideas" will lead to a limited number of candidates and only the analysis of these will allow us to know if it is necessary to find new candidates, an concrete example will serve to clarify all this: