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I think there is often a confusion between memorising and understanding because they often go together. I'm an amateur chess player and I learned a few lines fr
by Miraltar 2y ago
I think there is often a confusion between memorising and understanding because they often go together.
I'm an amateur chess player and I learned a few lines from a few openings. I never sat down repeating blindly the move to make them stick in my head, I watched lessons that explain every move. But I did that on many openings and understood most. Yet I can only play a few of them because I forgot all the ones I was not actively practicing.
Understanding makes remembering a lot easier but it isn't enough.
- Jensson 2y ago> I watched lessons that explain every move. But I did that on many openings and understood most. People who say this usually didn't understood the lesson at all. When you ask people about the things directly afterwards they can't answer a thing, its just that people overestimate how much they did understand when they first heard it since they don't didn't test themselves on it.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoWhat is your rating? Everyone I know who is 1700 or above has spent a significant amount of time memorizing openings from books, and it would be interesting to see a counterpoint.
- somisu 2y ago[dead]