Author: gerold daniels
Date: 05:44:16 07/08/05
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On July 08, 2005 at 06:26:27, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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. Thanks for your comments Ricardo. I played a lot of games in west lake park in L.A. Ca. There was a gm there that played blindfold he stated that repetition was the key to his succuss. Gerold.
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