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Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked

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Re: Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked

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Post by ngriffiths »

dinkumthinkum wrote: post #48
ngriffiths wrote: post #26

Makes me wonder how good players "see" the board. Like what parts are "highlighted" and is it always changing as you ponder different aspects of the game, or more static?

If you mean how top players think about the game, you can watch videos of Hikara, Magnus, even GothamChess on YouTube and they go through in detail with visualizations of various positions in many games. Top players have encyclopedic knowledge of games and openings.

I have, and it's like magic to me. I have no idea how it works!

Re: Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked

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alabastervlog wrote: post #32
dpc_01234 wrote: post #18

Most basic blunders maybe? In a normal game a piece will be attacked and defended by multiple other pieces, with various values, sometimes with some dependencies between them, and I would consider messing this part a relatively trivial blunder as well.

I've played hundreds of games and I'm not sure a single one hasn't been decided by a "basic blunder", and I mean very basic. I bet the only games in which I've not committed one myself (and only gone on to win if it was overlooked, which they often are) were ones in which I fool's-mated someone. There's chess-people's experience of the game, then there's how every single other person, including those who play it quit…

Even on the highest caliber games "blunders" are often the decisive factor. It's just the higher the level, the more non-obvious the blunders are.

But even when playing with novices.kids, the aspect of double-attack/defense appears quite often. It's very basic and common consideration really.

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