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https://www.youtube.com/user/MatoJelic
I have no affiliation with him, but he is a brilliant trainer and he is a very lovely game narrator. I feel it is appropriate to talk about this channel, because I have not played serious chess in decades but just watching this guy go through these famous games, gave me such insight that reading this article (the on from OP) sounded rather naive.
Speaking of chess, I strongly recommend this youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MatoJelic I have no affiliation with him, but he is a brilliant trainer and he is a very lovely game narrator. I feel it is appropriate to talk about this channel, because I have not played serious chess in decades but just watching this guy go through these famous games, gave me such insight that reading this article (the on f…
Good conversation at about my level (read: plays a bit, but not necessarily well). I've noticed that many new players seem to obsess on their Openings, while my skills are very much the Endgame (I'm great at holding multiple logic trees in my head, which becomes an asset late in a game when you can pursue these to a checkmate). Basically, if I can survive 15 moves against comparably skilled players, I will win. But t…
Is there a playstyle of chess where both players agree to skip the opening, just setting up the board as if the opening were played "by the book" by both players and going from there? It seems like that'd be much better for getting amateur-level players practice in their middlegames, since they wouldn't need to worry about perfecting the opening before they could even attempt it.
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>> there's a defined early game, a midgame and endgame. all things with defined start and finish criteria can be conceptualized this way. careers: education is early game setting you up for success, job/career is midgame, retirement is end game. relationships: dating is early game, engagement/marriage is midgame, death/divorce is end game. software development: envision project/write requirements is early game, codin…
I think you've got the parallels for "early game" right, but the parallels for "endgame" wrong. The endgame is the phase directly before the end of the game, where two players who have each managed to avoid screwing themselves over in the early game, and who have each managed to match their opponent's multiple-front challenges and feints in the middlegame, finally are forced (usually by the game's increasing resource…
disconnect on our understandings is that I didn't define the game ending criteria for each example. in chess, it's either a checkmate or a draw that ends the game.
for my examples, my criteria are death for the career, the relationship ending, and the software product reaching the end if it's supported life.
Speaking of chess, I strongly recommend this youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MatoJelic I have no affiliation with him, but he is a brilliant trainer and he is a very lovely game narrator. I feel it is appropriate to talk about this channel, because I have not played serious chess in decades but just watching this guy go through these famous games, gave me such insight that reading this article (the on f…
I would add https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerPlayChess/videos and https://www.youtube.com/user/Chessexplained/videos to that list.
I got really into chess for a bit, but started to find it sort of boring after a while. Midgames can be interesting but the early games are simply displays of memorization. Really incredibly good players end in draws more often than not. Games like Starcraft are pretty much the exact same - there's a defined early game, a midgame and endgame.
It'd be interesting to see some statistics for this.
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Thanks very much for the chess discussion. Great to learn even more.
Josh
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I think you've got the parallels for "early game" right, but the parallels for "endgame" wrong. The endgame is the phase directly before the end of the game, where two players who have each managed to avoid screwing themselves over in the early game, and who have each managed to match their opponent's multiple-front challenges and feints in the middlegame, finally are forced (usually by the game's increasing resource…
right. the end game is before the end of the games. we're on the same page on that. disconnect on our understandings is that I didn't define the game ending criteria for each example. in chess, it's either a checkmate or a draw that ends the game. for my examples, my criteria are death for the career, the relationship ending, and the software product reaching the end if it's supported life.
Endgame is a part of the game, the late stages. It comes after the midgame.
It doesn't go "early game, midgame, checkmate."
Same for all of your examples, where you note the endpoint, not the endgame.