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>>Chess is incredibly difficult. Its not exactly difficult. Or more precise, It can appear difficult as people don't show how the work is done. You see this e
by kamaal 2y ago
>>Chess is incredibly difficult.
Its not exactly difficult. Or more precise, It can appear difficult as people don't show how the work is done.
You see this even among the Math people as well. It appears as pure magic. But in reality its mostly understanding what the axioms and rules are. Then starting at some point, and making the most smallest atomic change possible to a thing and seeing it its consistent with the rules. Else move to making new change(s) and test if it works/consistent with rules. This can resemble working down trees of changes.
At the end its basically having the patience to sit for hours, and then days full of such hours- And then work things on paper(paper work). At the end you will find yourself with lots of paper work, basically trees of decision branches, that you made while making small changes.
Think of it like a trial of large change log. And forks.
When people see this from the outside, they only see the start point to end result, not all the decision trees. So there is a tendency to imagine the Math guy thought up a perfect solution in exact number of steps. The paper work is hidden and it all looks like pure magic.
When it comes to chess, more top people need to come out and show how they are working through their decisions. Their prep work, their though log etc.
Long story short, they are showing you a magic trick, like a excellent display of sleight of hand. Once you see the practice and the trick is revealed it doesn't appear as difficult.
- philipwhiuk 2y ago> Its not exactly difficult. Or more precise, It can appear difficult as people don't show how the work is done. What is difficulty other than priori repetition of a sequence? Anything difficult can be trivialised to this requirement.
- kamaal 2y agoExactly. I also believe a lot of these magic like fields in the current era sound so 'meh' largely because the mechanical processes behind achieving results is revealed. >>What is difficulty other than priori repetition of a sequence? Its not easy, but its not where it was either. Only a decade or two back these things were restricted to nerds and was somewhat like rare occult knowledge. You had to be part of some club to even participate. While you still need to practice a lot to work in the upper level in competitions and all. It no longer has a magic like appeal.
- gosub100 2y agoI had to quit because I found it extremely frustrating. I could hardly ever win. And when I did it was from massive blunders, not from anything I did. I never had an issue with losing in other games, I'm not a competitive type that has to win. But chess made me feel like I had the illusion that I could win but in fact it was almost never possible. I also hate the characteristic that if you make one mistake you lose. You can never recover, whereas in tennis or basketball or something you can be ahead and behind and still have a chance. Chess is like that board game Operation, you make one bad move and it nullifies everything you did before that moment.