Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:19:01 08/09/01
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On August 09, 2001 at 05:25:37, Graham Laight wrote: >Here's the link: > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1480000/1480365.stm > >Seems the brain magnetic resonance scanning confirms what we've all suspected - >that GMs tend to use their memory, wheras weak players have to do it by >calculation (the chess computer method). I do not have the impression that weak players use the chess computer method. They have enough time at tournament time control to do 1 ply search and 1 ply search after the move that they plan to play but they do not do it and a common mistake of amatuers is not to play a move simply because they did not analyze it or to lose material or to do a positional mistake because they did not consider the opponent reply even for one second. I believe that trying to think like a computer for the first ply can improve the level of most players at 2 hours/40 move time control. I believe that grandmasters also can play sligthly better by doing it and I remember that I read cases when grandmasters did a mistake simply because of the same reason. I believe that blitz games are counter productive for the level of grandmasters because they learn to think in the wrong way for tournament games by doing it(they cannot use the method of 1 ply search in blitz). I believe that most of the strong players including most of the grandmasters are not interested in being best at tournament time control and they prefer to waste time on blitz games There are two reasons for this 1)They like to play blitz 2)They can earn money from blitz games and it is not clear if being 30 elo better at tournament time control is a good deal for them if they are 200 elo worse at blitz games. Uri
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