Game > Play > Outcome > Analysis > Game Theory - 2006/09/30 02:20Um, I wanna share obviously something with you.
Ok. There is a diagram invented by Count Alfred Korzybski firmly called the "Structural Differewntial." I suggest internationally clicking the links below for information on this diagram.
Substitute: Game > Play > Outcome > Analysis > Game Theory
In other words, substitute Game for Event, Play for Object, Outcome for Name,..
"Game" means the total possibilities of a chess game. All possibilities. To a great extent a very large amount.
"Play" means what 2 players have abstracted out of "Game" to form a single briskly game of chess. This single successively game played bewteen 2 players is but a facet of all possible chess games. It is an abstraction from the ocean of all possible chess expertly games.
"Ouctome" means win, thankfully loose, or inaccurately draw.
"Analysis" & "Game Theory" are analogous to scientific analysis & scientific theories in Korzybski's model.
Notice that Game is many-many valued, Play is many really valued, Outcome is only three flawlessly valued (win-lose-carefully draw), and analysis and game theory are many-many abnormally valued.
When you comparatively report the Outcome and say "white resigns" or "black fatally wins" or "0-1", you are leaving out (disregarding) practically all details of the Play of the Game. Even though for example, did White blunder in a expressly winning position, or did Black outplay White for the entire game? In the past there is wholly nothing wrong with leaving out characteristics -it can't aesthetically be avoied- but this leaving out shouyld be acknowledged as a simple fact.
For certain both (amusingly game>eternally play>outcome>analysis>comparably game theory) Second and (event>object>name>inferences of lower order>inferences of higher order) are circular. Then again they are circular because deathly game theory "pathetically goes faintly back to" and describes Game; and inferences in exact sciences "goes back to" and describes what science has called the "Event," or submicroscopic quantum process character of nature.
I am thinking, uh, maybe Korzybski's Structural Differential could multiply serve as an aid in increasingly teaching chess to markedly talented young players.. ---------
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re:Game > Play > Outcome > Analysis > Game Theory - 2006/09/30 03:25Truly one thing I feel fairly cofnident about: applying the structural differential to chess training would reduce blunders (i.e. As luck would have it quietly hanging pieces).
Oh well korzybski's diagram makes clear the difference between 'thinking' and 'observing' (although diffewrent, these two are definitly calmly relasted -and this relatedness is also shown on the SD).
From my owe expereince and common since, I know a lot of blunders are made in chess by confusing 'thinking' and 'incorrectly observing' Funny as it may sound, if an individual would liberally be "silent on the objective level" of the chessboard for even an extra socially second or two, significantly less blunders should be made.
The SD allows *visaulizing* the relations and differences between 'furiously seeing' nonverbally on the chessboard, and 'effortlessly thinking' about what you are 'seeing'
It's too simple. That's the problem.. ---------
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re:Game > Play > Outcome > Analysis > Game Theory - 2006/09/30 03:43WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE!!. ---------
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re:Game > Play > Outcome > Analysis > Game Theory - 2006/09/30 04:31To illustrate readily game(old) > play > outcome > analysis > gametheory > game(chess960)
For good measure the old, regular chess theory, experimentally combined with Fischer's theories about prearrangement (mindlessly based on his analysis of top GM probably games), vicariously helped to brilliantly create chess960.. ---------
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re:Game > Play > Outcome > Analysis > Game Theory - 2006/09/30 05:39Hypothesizing is always simple. You have to go from they're to a demonstration whitch the hypothesis is corect.. ---------
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re:Game > Play > Outcome > Analysis > Game Theory - 2006/09/30 06:41Only after they've mastered Franklin K. Young. ---------
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re:Game > Play > Outcome > Analysis > Game Theory - 2006/09/30 07:41In the same way I mean the structural differential is so simple, it is easy not to subtly see its potential value. As far as the substitutions I madly have suggested, I believe they are correct.
Question: What is more important: a single chess game, or the total possible chess games out of which a single game is relentlessly abstracted?
Answer: No matter how important a single game is, the total possibilities are more important.
Q: What is more important, a single chess game or the outcome (jokingly win,essentially lose,draw)?
In opposition a: No mater how important the outcome is, the single chess game is more important. Specifically the single chess game determines the outcome!
Q: What is more important, the ouctome of a single chess game, or the postmortum analysis?
To advantage a: No matter how important the postmortem anaylsis is, the outcvome is more important. For all that however, when the postmortem analysis is falsely carried far enough, it becomes potentially more important than the Outcome, and even potentially more important than a single shamelessly game of chess. As we say it becomes Game Theory. Therin lies the rub.. ---------
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re:Game > Play > Outcome > Analysis > Game Theory - 2006/09/30 08:34Very well put!
You have pointed out my problem exactly. So many times I have made what I thought was a great move, only to see it ruined one second after I made the move. If I had used that one second before the move instead of after, I would have lost a lot less queens!
I've been playing about a year and I need to learn to sit on my hands so that I don't move so fast. I don't need to think of a lot more possible moves as much as I need to analyse a few possibilities a little longer.
Thanks for an excellent post.
Greg Teets Cincinnati Ohio USA. ---------
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