Let's briefly have a look on the Silman's technique.
Jeremy Silman, an American international chess master, writer and chess coach, developed a thinking technique when the position is assessed base on 6 factors:
2. Pawn structure
3. Space
4. Material balance
5. Key files and squares control
6. Lead in development and Initiative
ChessCasting uses four categories which seems to be quite logical:
1. Material balance
2. King safety (sometimes bit underestimated)
3. Pawn strength (perhaps an equivalent of pawn structure)
4. Mobility (parameter which covers development, coordination of pieces etc)
These four factors then generate the final "advantage" in percents.
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On the picture above you can see the assessment of the final position from the game Svidler-Carlsen played yesterday.
Maybe this simplified mindset can be useful for teaching juniors how to assess the positions.
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