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> Ah yes, chess, the game where people love to remember sequences. You can remember openings. From the middle game, you have to "play".
Listening to chess event commentators it's all sequences
At 18, this is no small thing. Kasparov was 22, I don't see Gukesh's record being broken for a long while
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> Ah yes, chess, the game where people love to remember sequences. You can remember openings. From the middle game, you have to "play".
Listening to chess event commentators it's all sequences
Outside of the opening, it's not rote memorisation, it's a mix of pattern recognition and calculation. You have to spot familiar patterns, but from a "distance", and calculate whether the differences in your specific instance are crucial or not to the pattern.
Chess is incredibly difficult.
For being the headline, they sure hid his age pretty well. Not at the opening paragraph nor end of the article, nor photo captions near the top or bottom. cmd+f "years" 0 results cmd+f "age" 0 results And scanning for numbers is useless since most of the article is chess moves written out.
It was painful watching Ding Liren blunder the rook and realize what he had done.
It was. But he had 9 minutes vs more than an hour for Gukesh. The entire match has been Ding defending miraculously, I thought it was a matter of time before he eventually failed. The fact that it happened on the last moves of the last game, it's definitely hard for Ding, but fair for Gukesh IMO.
wrt the time, this is kind of a bread and butter endgame. Ding shouldn't have blundered here with 10 minutes on the clock. Highly unlikely he would have blundered this two years ago.
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It was. But he had 9 minutes vs more than an hour for Gukesh. The entire match has been Ding defending miraculously, I thought it was a matter of time before he eventually failed. The fact that it happened on the last moves of the last game, it's definitely hard for Ding, but fair for Gukesh IMO.
Well it sounds like an instance of "your keys are always in the last place you look, because then you stop looking"
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> Ah yes, chess, the game where people love to remember sequences. You can remember openings. From the middle game, you have to "play".
Listening to chess event commentators it's all sequences
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Listening to chess event commentators it's all sequences
Outside of the opening, Chess players tend to call them combinations, and it's not really memorisation as such, it's pattern recognition, and it's a very difficult skill to master. Outside of the opening, it's not rote memorisation, it's a mix of pattern recognition and calculation. You have to spot familiar patterns, but from a "distance", and calculate whether the differences in your specific instance are crucial o…
It was painful watching Ding Liren blunder the rook and realize what he had done.