Questions tagged [board-vision]
Board vision is the ability to see the whole board and register what is going on.
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How can I deal with low confidence and 'chess esteem' while I am learning to play, even when I repeat mistakes?
I posted a popular question a couple of days ago, and it brought up another topic that is worthy of a question.
For reference, I've been playing 6–7 weeks, and my chess.com rating is a laughable ~300. ...
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Board Vision Puzzles
There's a plethora of tactics puzzles out there. However, I'm looking for board vision puzzles.
For example, given a certain position, how many legal moves does X piece have? How many pieces are ...
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Why do GMs look up during calculations?
I saw some grandmasters looking up or sideways during calculations. Why don't they just look at the board and visualize? Wouldn't that be easier?
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How to visualize in chess?
Skip to 2:08:27 in this video https://youtu.be/nK4SNEbMn7s.
What exactly is GMHikaru doing that?How can I be able to do that?Does it comes naturally with practice or their are exercises?
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Chess thought process
Can any of the higher rated players here (1500+) talk about their thought process during a game so I can improve my own?
For example, my own process goes like this:
Am I hanging a piece with this ...
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Angle of view of the board
I noticed that when I play online I play much better than when I play facing a chess board. I suspect this is due to my table being tall so my angle of view isn't the best one.
So I was wondering if ...
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Is it inadvisable to analyze or play long chess games on a smartphone?
I play a lot of online chess, but I am a federated player whose objective is to play well over-the-board games with 3D pieces.
During my hourly tactics exercises I turn on the computer and do it in ...
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Looping through the same lines while solving puzzles
When solving tactics sometimes I spend a lot of time (20-30 minutes) looking at the same line over and over again.
Sometimes I have a feeling that one particular line is the right one but my vision ...
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Why isn't chess played with flat pieces?
I was wondering why Chess isn't played with flat pieces, as Shogi is, or as Chess itself is represented online (where people mostly play with flat 2d pieces, even though most sites also have a 3d ...
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Is there a method or tip to best memorize current enemy pieces' movements?
I have started to play Chess again after a few years. It is not difficult to reproduce an opening or sticking with a plan during the middlegame, but the most difficult to me is to keep track of enemy ...
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Mental models in chess
In “Chess as a Behavioral Model for Cognitive Skill Research,” Mechner writes the following about mental representation of the game by blindfold chess masters:
But the bombshell, which prompts the ...
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What is the best way to improve visualization? [duplicate]
Visualization (seeing a chessboard, where the pieces are and how they can move moves ahead in your mind) is an important part of tactics and calculation.
What is the best way (or a good way) to ...
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How to visualize a position
I'm a decent player and am pretty good at tactics and visualizing series of moves with a board in front of me. However I have an extremely difficult time visualizing positions and moves purely in my ...
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Following the moves from the black’s point of view
I am an intermediate level chess enthusiast. I have noticed that one of the main hindrances that slows down my progress is that I have never been able to internalize the algebraic notation and lack a ...
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I blunder too much in over-the-board chess
I have played 99% of my games online, I have seen and learn almost everything related to chess with the fonts Alpha or Mérida, either through diagrams or games, etc .
However, when I play with an ...
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What thought process should one use to find candidate moves?
Do you have a thought process for finding candidate moves?
Once you find all possible candidate moves, how do you narrow it down to your final choice?
Regarding the process, do you have a ...
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What are techniques to improve the number of moves thought through in advance?
I read somewhere that on average a GM can think up to 10-15 moves ahead in tactical positions.
Is there any specific technique to improve this depth?
Please do not provide a generic answer on how ...
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