I think the ability to visualize or keep track of where the pieces are in the
mind is one of the most important things for a very good chess player to be
able to do. This is why I do not play well over the board, but if I can move
the pieces around and actually see where they will be several moves ahead
allows me to play much better.
When you see your opponents move usually the first reply you think of
is the move you are going to play. I've seen the stats vary but I think seven
out of ten times is about right.
But of course you must look at it (time permitting) you never know when
the 7/10 ratio will strike and it could happen four or five moves on the trot.
Sometimes you can analyse yourself out of making a good move.
"I felt I wanted to play this move, (the correct move) but did not like this
(a ghost threat) as a reply." Is often heard in the analysis room.
I saw the Angus McArlsen interview (him being a Norwegian is a load of bull
- he's Scottish.)
He's gifted, so it's obvious he cannot explain fully how he does it.
His most revealing statement was that of the intimidation he felt when playing Kasparov.
That is something OTB players have to deal with and partly explains why many
of the great players get draws or even wins from bad positions against fellow GM's.
Look for caes of that 'unplayed winning move or plan'.
The intimidated player often goes against his first choice (see above) and finds
a valid reason (convinces himself) not to play it.
Such games exist on all the great players CV's, you never or rarely see them
in the collected best games because it does look like a swindle. (a dirty word at GM level).
Originally posted by greenpawn34 GPII is on the right track.
When you see your opponents move usually the first reply you think of
is the move you are going to play. I've seen the stats vary but I think seven
out of ten times is about right.
But of course you must look at it (time permitting) you never know when
the 7/10 ratio will strike and it could happen four or five moves ...[text shortened]... collected best games because it does look like a swindle. (a dirty word at GM level).
Making the first move I think of hasn't worked for me OTB. I've done it
in rapid games and it may be okay for a couple of moves, then all of a
sudden it turns out to be a trap and I am losing. I just recently played
the first thing that came to my mind against the Stafford Gambit that I
had never seen before in one of these rapid OTB games and wound up
with a pawn, knight, and bishop for my queen plus my position was bad
too.
Yes, that is exactly what happened. I didn't remember at first because
it was one of the rapid games. But that's it. He actually got the pawn
back before he got my queen too. I had thought I still had the extra pawn.
P.S. After he beat me he told me it was the Stafford Gambit and that
there was other ways I could have went wrong. But I guess I made it
easy for him.
Originally posted by RJHinds No, only 10,000 master games that he had memorized.
lol!
BTW - some of the 60 minutes "extras" on the site are quite good also.
In the one Fredric F. from chessbase says that Magnus can do things with his brain that a cognitive psychologist would consider "impossible", and in another they go up in a Ferris Wheel, and Magnus doesn't even look at the view once, because he is thinking about chess.
BTW - some of the 60 minutes "extras" on the site are quite good also.
In the one Fredric F. from chessbase says that Magnus can do things with his brain that a cognitive psychologist would consider "impossible", and in another they go up in a Ferris Wheel, and Magnus doesn't even look at the view once, because he is thinking about chess.
It takes a lot of practice to stay in shape for any sport.
BTW - some of the 60 minutes "extras" on the site are quite good also.
In the one Fredric F. from chessbase says that Magnus can do things with his brain that a cognitive psychologist would consider "impossible", and in another they go up in a Ferris Wheel, and Magnus doesn't even look at the view once, because he is thinking about chess.
I would be curious to hear what a cognitive psychologist would consider impossible!
Originally posted by kyngj I would be curious to hear what a cognitive psychologist would consider impossible!
I hope he uses his brain for something more useful than playing games
of Chess and does not follow the path of those that makes chess their
entire career. It seems he may have a talent that should not be wasted
on just playing chess.
"It seems he may have a talent that should not be wasted on just playing chess."
Just leave him alone to play chess, he is giving millions harmless pleasure.
There are already enough of these clever people going around screwing things up.
Look at the brain power that went into building atomic weapons.
Then think of all the other ingenious ways that have been invented just to kill,
maim and destroy. Clever people are dangerous.
I reckon that mankind's first invention was a club to kill things with.
It's in the genes.
Re; The Magnus Mistake
I think Magnus may have been the victim of perhaps knowing too much.
Did he not say the game was played in '1855'.
But what was the question, how was it phrased?
The game was played in 1851 but given the name 'The Immortal' in 1855.
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