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baronderkilt 09-Jul-11, 08:03 |
 How do you analyze best? Set or Graphics ?Is there anyone who feels the opposite? Perhaps some of you born with a laptop in hand. lol. Or are you a traditional "woodpusher" of the real wood type like me? I seem to analyze better, faster, deeper and more creatively when on real equipment. I wonder if it is the view. Or maybe a Conditioning effect involved that breaking out the set says time for Real Chess to me? Like a Cold Room, Cigar Smoke & a Dr Pepper used to get my nerves jumping to start a tournament back at the YMCA hall in my youth. ***** Related Questions... any you want to bring up. Or these: *Is there anything you do to "get set" psych-up or whatever ? *Is a Staunton Set best , like it is for me? *Any "lift" from playing on a Wooden Set, or Triple Weighted Kasparov Ebony, or other really nice one? Or does that make it worse!? lol * Anything you Avoid before a tournament, or any analysis session? (Me- -pasta or turkey etc re the tryptophan and sleepiness. But I do like to have music. Except involving oriental stick dancing in the last round while playing for a prize ... been there, done that. But to walk down memory-lane . . . Omaha, mid 80's, the Library Meeting Room is silent. About Move 11, an Evans Gambit is in progress, getting tense. And so the players sat, in rapt concentration .... Suddenly a racous melee of sound errupts upon them ... simultaneously the players lift their gaze from the board in realization the roof is still intact, and eyes meet, thoughts syncronize, one smiles one laughs as it becomes apparent this will not be a short demonstration despite being of Botvinnik-distracting proportions. "11. DRAW?" ~! "...YES~!! " agreeing to share another Chess Payoff, a splitting of first place. Now both can afford lunch; if they don't order the fries with it. |
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drawing the plan of battle then mark-in the pieces for each side, and then sketch in arrows or vectors. It goes with the way I conceptualize the value of my pieces: the value of a piece is a function of its target -- of the value of that target -- and of the control by other pieces of its path in getting to the target. Drawing out a chessboard on each move takes more time, it lacks the interactive responsiveness of a computer screen, and it is less tactile than moving real pieces on a real board. Yet, for me, it works. Once we are out of book. Once we are far from standard tabiya or known positions. Especially in the middlegame, competing for the future of the position. And most of my middlegames are scenes where the forces grapple in a positional struggle, rather than clash in a hot-war tactical conflict. For almost every late middlegame move, I sketch the position. So each game develops a stack of pages, of warfighting ideas. Because there is an idea behind each move ventured. After all, the game of chess takes place in the mental battlefield, not the wooden one, nor the silicon one. For a game of chess is a battle of ideas. It seems counter-intuitive, but sketching it out even helps me to visualize and to chew over a hard move in my mind during the day. As I seek that ah-ha moment of insight, excitement, clarity, or knowledge that This is the move to make. Pencil and paper mark the path to enlightenment. |
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I have also done your drawing method as well from time to time,if i'm away from home on the work computer,for example.I have a talent,however,in which I can visualize the present game position atleast 30 deep at a time simply by looking at my descriptive notation scoresheet breifly.If it were in algebraic,I could not visualize the immediate position,however.I can also mentally overlap two scoresheets in my mind approx 30 deep and analyze in my mind the comparative stronger or weaker mid game position without even looking at a chess board. Helps alot without always resorting to some DB. |
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TA's sight gamesight and foresight WOW . W |
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