Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares

Re:Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares by greymalik on Saturday June 22, 2024 @03:15PM (#40761381)

> This exercise involves looking at a piece and imagining which square it would be best placed on, without initially worrying about how to get it there.

Without using Stockfish, how does one do this in their head? What rubric can you use to evaluate whether one square is better than another? (I’m a very low level player, obviously,)

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Re:Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares by arh68 on Saturday June 22, 2024 @05:58PM (#40762565)

Knights like to sit fairly forward, reinforced by our pawns, on squares their pawns can't attack.

Bishops like long diagonals, and to complement the pawns' attacking squares (Ps & Bs tend to cover only one color). Also good for "countering" a knight 3 squares away (Nf6 & Bf3, for example, though it seems to prefer Bg2).

Rooks like open files, doubling up, 7th rank plays, and (in this case) the rare opportunity to line it up w/ their king (Rg3).

Queens like not being trapped or sidelined (by either side's pieces), good diagonals, good files, or both (like some natural mix of rook & bishop wants).

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