To increase your ability to find tactics, and to heighten your awareness of them, you might, for example, nurture the habit of scouring the board for useful connections between pieces and squares. To help you in this quest, you might try asking directive and relevant questions, such as: Are there any enemy pieces on the same lines as my pieces? Are there two or more enemy pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal? If not, do several of the opponent’s pieces connect to the same square? Can my queen move to a square that connects to several enemy units?
