Make it hard
This lesson uses chess positions. Until you have played a little, its board questions are worked examples to read. New to chess? Play your first moves (five minutes), then learn it from the beginning.
Chess teaches this because lost-looking games are often saved by stubborn, accurate defence. Off the board, the habit comes only from practising it there, as this week’s task asks.
You were part-way through this lesson, at step 1 of 7.