Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 03:26:27 07/08/05
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On July 07, 2005 at 19:07:32, Uri Blass wrote: >On July 07, 2005 at 18:28:28, Eberhard wrote: > >>The human brain has a remarkable ability to find patterns and store them in the >>memory. This is why world champions still play better than chess softwares. For >>example, humans have a better evaluation of pawn structures in the game. >> >>This was demonstrated in the 3rd game of Kasparov against Deep Fritz 8 and in >>the game of Rustam Kasimdzhanov against the Fritz 9 prototype. >> >>http://www.chessville.com/misc/PsychologyofChessSkill.htm >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2466 > > >I read: >"In fact, chess players do not really “visualize” future positions in the sense >of a detailed mental image, such having a picture of the board in one's head, >but they are able to calculate long series of moves." > >I do not believe it. >How is it possible to play blindfold without having a picture of the board in >your head? I've played 2 blindfold games simultaneously and feel like I can do more and I can tell you that visualizing the board is not important. Spatial--reasoning--and memory are what you use. You use a large number of "little facts" about the board and pieces such as "a bishop on d3 can hit the h7 square" without actually visualizing it. Memory is helped along by the meaningfulness of a piece being on a particular square, etc. The "little facts" are part of the meaningfulness of it. A person can maybe visualize 6 squares at a time, but this is of limited usefulness for blindfold, though I would not say it is useless or unnecessary. > >How is it possible to see that the queen is under threat by a bishop without >seeing fast the squares that the bishop control. See above. A couple of the "little facts" tells you. > >In games with board there is no problem because I can see that the bishop threat >the queen in one second but without a board I do not see the squares in the same >diagnol as the bishop Me neither. >(I may calculate them but without a picture it will take me >many seconds to see that the bishop threats the queen even if I remember the >squares of the bishop and the queen). > >Uri Yes, it takes longer then. I do not have a complete set of "little facts" about the board and in those cases, you have to figure it out i.e. essentially construct the "little fact" on the fly. Usually you remember it and do not have to reconstruct it later in your analysis or in subsequent positions of the game. A productive path to improving ones blindfold play is to memorize a complete set of "little facts" so that they are 2nd nature to you.
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