Sunday, July 02, 2006

Doping

At CTS I have a Rating-max of 1564
My Rating-min is about 1520
I'm speaking about low RD's meaning high probabilities.

There seem to be two brainprocesses that are important when problem solving.
  • Pattern recognition
  • Calculation/evaluation/decision making
Pattern recognition always operates at lightning speed. "within 3 seconds". "a tempo".
Rating-max is dependant on your pattern recognition.

The decision making part of the brain is highly influenced by what I like to call the "viscosity of the brain". This thickness is sensitive to sleep, alcohol, tiredness, illness, coffee, exercise and presumably, doping.
The thicker your brain, the lower the speed of operation of this brainprocess.
This viscosity makes at what level you perform between Rating-max and Rating-min.
It's "the form of the day".
BTW, did you know that Max Euwe experimented with amphetamines for better performance?
Now you know what maximum effect you can expect from doping.
200 exercises at CTS will do about the same.

Training at CTS has as goal to transfer the things that you do now with the calculation-part of the brain to the pattern recognition-part of the brain. So from short term memory to long term memory.

Since the Tour de France has begon I thought it would be appropriate to say something about doping;)
BTW I'm not quite sure when to use the word "drugs" and when "doping"

2 comments:

  1. 'Dope' usually applies to illegal drugs.

    This article on fMRI in novice vs expert players looks interesting, though I have only read the introduction.

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