Candidate Moves and Thinking Tools with Karel van Delft and GM Sipke Ernst

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00:00 Intro
03:24 Candidate Move Project by Chessable Science Team
15:45 Weaker Players Consider More Candidate Moves
19:00 Forcing Moves
22:50 Kotov's Approach to Calculation
26:05 Grandmaster Intuition
28:54 Long Variation, Wrong Variation
31:55 Blunder-Check
33:43 Thinking Tools
45:56 Dvoretsky's Priyomes
49:46 Spaced Repetition of Patterns and Teachable Moments

In this episode, I sit down with Dutch psychologist, author, and trainer Karel van Delft, and Grandmaster Sipke Ernst, to discuss their brand-new Chessable course Find Your Next Move: Candidate Moves and Thinking Tools. Karel brings a multidisciplinary background—psychology, journalism, and decades of chess education—while Sipke is a seasoned grandmaster, coach, and local chess hero in Groningen.

We explore the origins of the project, starting with research by the Chessable Science Team. We contrast Kotov’s classic advice of rigid “tree-like” thinking with the more dynamic, progressive deepening that Adrian de Groot has pointed out. The conversation also dives into the structure of their course: from tactical foundations like forcing moves, to psychological aspects like time trouble and intuition, and finally to thinking tools—practical heuristics grounded in both chess pedagogy and cognitive science. We discuss metacognition, blunder-checking, and even methods to build your own database of patterns for lasting improvement.