The Forces of Chess

I'm not a titled player. So if you're looking for an experienced/titled player's perspective, then no — that's not what I'm presenting here. I'm simply sharing my own way of looking at chess and seeing whether anyone else finds it useful.
Reach, Force, and Change: A New Framework for Understanding Chess

What if chess positions could be understood not primarily as collections of moves and tactical motifs, but as systems of reachable relations undergoing change?

The Forces of Chess develops a framework built around six fundamental questions:

Where can it act?
What is there?
How does the relation act?
Is it active now, or only conditionally?
What does the interaction produce?
What is different afterward?

These questions form the book's central architecture:

REACH → OCCUPANCY → FORCE → TENSE → RESULTANT → CHANGE → REACH

The framework introduces six force descriptions — Push, Pull, Redirect, Release, Tension, and Block — and uses them to reinterpret familiar chess phenomena such as forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, deflections, overloads, and interpositions.

The aim is not to replace traditional chess terminology. It is to look underneath it.

A fork, for example, is not treated as an isolated pattern to memorize, but as a configuration in which one changed reach produces multiple actionable consequences. A discovered attack becomes a Release: an existing force becomes active when its obstruction disappears. A deflection becomes Redirect. An overload becomes Tension.

The same framework is then extended to calculation: rather than treating calculation as a separate mental operation, the player projects the current force-state through possible changes and repeatedly examines the resulting position.

Current state → candidate change → projected state → new forces → new change

The result is an attempt to describe chess from the inside out: not merely what move is available, but what can reach what, what is acting, what resists, what changes, and what that change makes possible next.