@CheckRaiseMate said in #1:
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lichess.org/@/checkraisemate/blog/memory-the-key-to-chess/xQFKOv6oNice article! I found two statements in particular to be interesting:
1) "If you're going to memorize a line, you want it to be like a poem, not a random string of characters." I agree with that being a good memory aid. To interpret what "story" an opening line is telling takes creativity, but it's time well spent. Maybe many of the different "names" of various openings could be good starting points: "I rode a dragon in Sicily" for example.
2) "The general theory of chunking makes sense, but it's not entirely clear what the chess chunks would actually consist of." As a personal experimental approach, I would like to try 'intentional chunking' by having universal chess principles as points of comparison for each stage of the game. It's easier to remember concrete examples when they fit somehow into an overall pattern.
Thank you for the insights!
Interesting
This blog makes sense for blind chess and and also helpes in analyzing games without writing.
I don't think it's the key, although it's really important.
Re: chunking, I would just add that an excellent way to construct passwords that are both easy to remember and strong (practically impossible to guess by humans or computer dictionary attacks) is to "construct a story," then use the first letter of each word in the story as your password. It can be a crazy story - the crazier the better! It can be funny or even vulgar, but importantly it needs to be original - not someone else's well-known story. Make your story such that you can remember it and keep it secret from everyone else.
the article referred to in the blog is not about improvement advice. it is more about understanding the psychology (cognitive) of the expert chess player, from its internal intuition support point of view.
The fact that master keyword is used in many levels and that the NN based empirical machine can play very well, is what makes the "improvement" slip in understanding of the purpose. I guess the blog was tilting in that direction.
It is not about how to get there when you are not an expert yet. Although finding some association with known chess theory patterns is comforting for the relevance of those. That there are other patterns for which theory has not yet produced names should not be alarming to those who think that chess is a big thing and not a done deal from the theoretical** point of view.
That consciously we might not recognize such patterns (the unsupervised ones), even as expert, might be related to how even in visual recognition higher levels (higher layers) patterning given a task, does not tell us much either looking like omelettes of known things.
** this is not about opening "theory" directly, although a real theory of openings might be closer, and if that paper is about things transcending the initial sequence inheritance point of view by identifying some invariant visible structures on the board I would say: great... some progress ahead.
Was anyone else able to memorize in a few minutes? I struggled. FM CheckRaiseMate has some high standards for rehearsing lines!
streamable.com/q96y1kI always say to people that I'm ok at chess because of memorisation ie I've played 6000 games in 7 years - probably more. But- memory (patterns) will only take you so far. Greatest Game ever, just saying!
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neural science is very important to getting want you want out of life I have read, TRIZ "how to invent innovate and solve 'impossible' technical problems systematically" goes into such explorations. Also, rapid comprehension reading were they can read 25,000 words per minute, they dont have to read in order to understand the passages. You can melt your own brain like a 3d printer to new neural path ways and thus accomplish more.
Chess is symbolic reasoning the natural representation of the pieces is not necessary.
