Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 17:00:21 11/04/02
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On November 04, 2002 at 19:49:47, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Bob: >Even if that cibernetic self awareness was possible, I wonder in what sense it >would be useful to play a better chess. Wait! That was MY question. No fair! >Just to mention a couple of things, >mastery handling of anything almost supposes a kind of no-self awareness. The >day you drive a car at 150 Miles per hour with lot of self awareness >you will end in the mortuary. I remember an old treatise about fencing, a >chinese one. The first thing is said was this: the master of fencing does not >thik in what he is ding. If he does, he lose. >Well, a point to consider at least. >Fernando Your point is that chess may be played mostly at the subconscious or habit level, and not at the conscious level. Since self-awareness may be mostly at the conscious level, then habit-based learned skills would be hampered by too much conscious thought. Note, however, that self-awareness does NOT imply conscious deliberation or structured thinking in a language. In bullet chess, maybe the conscious mind has very little to do with the outcome. Maybe true in slow games too? While playing in slow formal tournaments in my younger years, I recall many times the need to "talk to myself" to calm down my fears and irrational fantasies. More than once, I have had to talk myself into thinking a bit more before playing a move. Self-awareness of my emotional state has helped me more than once in my tournament games. Of course, they say chess engines are emotionless. So self-awareness might not help them as much. Bob D.
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