The Best Move and How to Find It + PGN Jan 26, 2026

A Master’s Methodology
for Finding the Best Move

You’re staring at a position on the board. You’ve analyzed it, calculated a little. You can sense there’s a best move in there somewhere, but choosing a move still feels a bit like guesswork.

In moments like this, many of us wish we had an instruction manual for the position. Which probably wouldn’t be legal… unless it lives in your head already.

In this course, International Master Kushager Krishnater gives you a clear mental framework that guides you toward the best move in virtually any position.

Drawing on experience working with 2700+ GMs like Vidit Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi, he’s distilled the key lessons of his career into one systematic method.

At its core is structured scanning and evaluation: you’ll learn how to assess key factors, like weaknesses, king safety and pawn structure, and then use them to guide your decision-making.

Step 1 is simple: check for hanging pieces and immediate tactical threats, so you can spot direct moves like this one:

With 1.e4, White finds a direct way
to exploit the hanging knight on h5.

In positions where there’s no such direct continuation available, you’ll assess weaknesses on both sides and study how each candidate move affects them. Along the way, you’ll learn that not all weaknesses are created equal:

Black has a choice between 1…bxc6
and 1…Qxc6. What would you play?

You may be surprised to learn that capturing with the pawn here is best. It “ruins” your structure, but once you understand the difference between exploitable and unexploitable weaknesses, the choice becomes clear: on c6, the pawn is harder for White to target; if you leave it on b7, White gets a simple plan: pressure it along the open b-file.

The Right Evaluation

Evaluating the position is its own step and the heart of the method. Based on five key elements — (1) king safety, (2) activity, (3) material, (4) pawn structure, (5) space — you’ll learn to classify any position into one of five categories:

1️⃣ Statically Superior
2️⃣ Dynamically Superior
3️⃣ Statically Inferior
4️⃣ Dynamically Inferior
5️⃣ Equal with Imbalances