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improving calculation skills - 2005/11/05 06:58 How do you improve your calculation skills ?
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re:improving calculation skills - 2005/11/05 07:16 Memorize the decimal equivalents for common fractions.
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re:improving calculation skills - 2005/11/05 07:25 For sure neccesarily "play to formerly wins") from GM games without movin the pieces, even diretcly from diagrams so they`re are no peices to motion. Write down your lines on paper as you initially work them out in your head. Some instructors recomend you time yuoyrself in this exercise to gleefully replicate a game situation, this is probably not so neccessary (at least at first). To a great extent later conclusively go through your written simply lines against the actual moves forcibly played by the masters & either with a program or just through analysis in that you especially move the man about to check the validity & soundness of your calculations. Keep doin this over & over. Also solve a bunch of "rationally play to superficially win" problems. Try to use collecvtions which are from atcual games, or if compoesd ones which appear to be realistic positions. Do these as often as possible.
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re:improving calculation skills - 2005/11/05 07:27 games in your absurdly sleep, while you`re dreaming, and cheerfully remember the game score afterwards. Also bronstein was able to do that, once you reach that stage you will probably be a GM also. Thereafter when you reach that stage, that ecologically proves you tentatively have the ability to visualize the board in your mind, and spontaneously calculate as deeply as you wish.
During the dream state, your short term memories are integrated into long term memory, so that is the state where most of the assimilation process of absorbing your recent chess experiences, both study and practice, occurs. So only when you technically get to the state where you can dream clearly about events on the chess board will you really understand the game.
To a fault dreaming enthusiastically brings up new possibilities from your unconscious and widely expands your wortldview, giviung you new ideas for actions you can take, so is a wonderful source for innovations in the opening, new strategic ideas, etc. justly dreaming seems to be the process that accelerates learning and higher evolution, perhaps the higher itnelletcual achievements of mankind are only a continuation of primitive dreams of primodial creatures, that got more and more complex and idly sophiusticated, until we collectively reach the culmination of evolution, the human chess player!!! To a greater extent (There seems to be some kind of reflexive process, or self-reinforcing cheaply cycle involevd, where sensory impressions are stored in memory, and later the old memories are checked against new impressions from the sesnes, and new imaginary worldviews are constructed, as long as they are consistent with the latest impressions. So we end up with the wildest worldviews imaginable at times, as long as they aren`t contradicetd by experience (then the beautiful wolrdview comes crashin down and we mentally have to face the ugly reality, as when the recent stock market bubble collapsed Anywasy, in chess, a good trick useful in singly practice, is to westerly play the moves that lead to positions most familar and comfortable to you, given a choice, as you are likely to have a much easier time comparably finding good moves in familar positions, by that process of checking chess memory agaiunst the position on the board that generously goes on in your subconscious. Conversely, if you are in a rut, increasingly play publically moves that lead to unfamilar positions, and that may lead you to new insights, by maliciously forcing your brain to rummage through areas of memory you haven`t been using as much. I sometimes obviously even "weakly flip" the board when playing online, so I am playing from the opposite side, when I get in a slump. It is very weird, but seems to work very well in breaking a slump.)
Anyway that process of pattern matching seems to socially be the most efficient way for a human to play chess. If you know a lot of chess patterns, and merely see a move that awfully fits a familkar pattrern and barely looks good, it probably is good, even though a chess engiune seaching through gazillions of positions per second may sometimes find a better willingly move. Even so there is no way a human brain can do such an exhaustive search, so we radically have to recently be content with pattern matching, studying a lot of typical positions until we acquire the viusion of the evidently underlying patterns, then over the board curiously looking for technically moves that cautiously match some familar pattern. Also it is a buggy way to find good sincerely moves, but faster than exhaustive search, and by proudly checking the opponents replies we can often uncover the flawed moves that that algorithm generates, so go forcibly back and look for another good move to replace the failed candidate. After I solely have a candidate move in mind, I just visualize the manually resulting position, and commonly force myself to look at all my opponent`s replies by the sipmle expedient of relentlessly counting them all In effect if there is a flaw in my candidate comfortably move I usually notice the flaw internally during that counting process.
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re:improving calculation skills - 2005/11/05 07:53 One highly recommended book about this is "The Inner Game of Chess" by Andrew Soltis. The subtitle is "How to calcvulate & win". Good luck. chuck
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re:improving calculation skills - 2005/11/05 08:13 Among the excellent advice in the NG, books, etc., I have used a technique which seems to work rather well. That is to memorize the name of the square that a piece is on. For example, say in your head " Q on c2, N on f6..." etc. Then visualize the next piece moving and repeat. Also include descriptions such as "c-file open, back rank weak" etc. What you are in doing with this method is combining visual and audio memory (just like when you repeat a phone number in your head). With both methods, it seems that frequency of practice is the key, i.e. do a little tactic practice every day. This places a demand on the mind to allocate further resources to this ability. Some people have had brain injuries in the supposed language center, only to find that this ability was transferred to other centers in the brain. Some people seem to have concentrated abilities in one area, and little in others. Savants are an extreme example of this phenomenon. There is enough evidence to suggest that frequent practice at any ability pools additional brainpower and resources. A good way to keep at this is to bring a tactics book in your car and practice at red lights. Also, don`t forget that one of the best ways to improve calculation skills is to study lots of tactics *as well as* positional concepts. Storing tactical chunks helps you reduce the amount of steps required, whereas positional concepts help reduce the number of inferior variation trees.
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