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When you look at the board you are calculating moves though yes? You don't just think about puppies and ice cream cones I assume.
by thefourthchime 4y ago
When you look at the board you are calculating moves though yes? You don't just think about puppies and ice cream cones I assume.
- armitron 4y agoNot consciously calculating, there is no effort put into minimaxing. I just look at how the board is set up, focus on the position, the patterns that the pieces dictate, squares that are weak, king position. It sounds like a script but my point is that it doesn't take conscious mental effort, these are mostly intuitive actions. Of course I wasn't born that way, I've spent years playing chess and it's obvious that these years of playing resulted in a calibrated network of weights in my brain that allow me now to play by feel. My point is more that I didn't perform any structured routines when playing games like the article describes. I kept playing and doing tactics training and my brain did the rest through osmosis. Which leads me to my final point in that tactics and pattern recognition matter and I think, having discussed this with many folks including club players, that they are the best way to rapidly increase one's skill.
- sireat 4y ago90% of time you do not calculate, you "feel" the moves. There is a saying that a difference between SuperGM, GM, IM, and a master is how many times a game they have to really spend time on a move that they are not sure of. SuperGM might be unsure about 1-3 times a game, GM 3-5, IMs 5-7, and as a master I have about 7-10 moves. Notice that depending on your time control, you will still want to take time to verify-calculate your "feel" moves.