List with flaws
System II has been on a spree, lately, so I gathered the following list
It took 3 minutes to see the magnet
I mean, what kind of problem is that? I either don't look at a certain part of the board OR I fail to realize the importance of what I see. Meaning, my attention is not where it should be.
It took a minute to see that my queen was protected
Have I trouble to see wether my queen was protected? Of course not. But as long as my attention doesn't shed light on the very fact, I can't see it. Of course I can't. Without attention nobody can.
In fact, I did see that my queen was protected. But I forgot. The moment I needed that knowledge, it wasn't there anymore.
The problem with the vultures view is that it adds redundancy. You see things you don't need to see. At the cost of time. Another problem is, that when you forget what you see, you can fly around in spirals forever.
The only way out seems to be to guide the attention by chess logic. In case of the protected queen:
After 1. Nc7 Qd8 the chess logic should go something like: My knight is pinned. Can I unpin it? If can if I protect my Queen, my knight is free to capture the bishop. How can I protect my queen? Oh wait, it is already protected!
I worked a lot on the standard scenarios, and this is such standard scenario. What to do when you are pinned (or think that you are pinned).
But the simple chess logic has never become fluent. It remained a system II exercise.
- Total underestimation of my own attack
- Overlooking my 4th attacker
- Insufficient endgame knowledge/experience
- Total underestimation of my own promotion attack
- It took 3 minutes to see the magnet
- Didn't see that the square I wanted to put my rook on was protected
- Didn't see that a move was threatening prepared both a double attack and a discovered attack
- Overlooking that I needed a move that not only captures, but must defense too
- It took 1.5 minute to see the box around the king
- didn't see my knight protected my bishop
- too hasty
- I entered the wrong tunnel
- totally overlooking the discovered attack
- didn't see the box around the king
- overlooking that an attacking move cleared a square in its wake
- took ages too see the counter attack thread
- overlooking a hole in the box
- It took a minute to see that my queen was protected
- It took a minute to see that a check was an interruption too
- It took 2 minutes too realize that I covered a square with my knight
It took 3 minutes to see the magnet
I mean, what kind of problem is that? I either don't look at a certain part of the board OR I fail to realize the importance of what I see. Meaning, my attention is not where it should be.
It took a minute to see that my queen was protected
Have I trouble to see wether my queen was protected? Of course not. But as long as my attention doesn't shed light on the very fact, I can't see it. Of course I can't. Without attention nobody can.
In fact, I did see that my queen was protected. But I forgot. The moment I needed that knowledge, it wasn't there anymore.
The problem with the vultures view is that it adds redundancy. You see things you don't need to see. At the cost of time. Another problem is, that when you forget what you see, you can fly around in spirals forever.
The only way out seems to be to guide the attention by chess logic. In case of the protected queen:
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After 1. Nc7 Qd8 the chess logic should go something like: My knight is pinned. Can I unpin it? If can if I protect my Queen, my knight is free to capture the bishop. How can I protect my queen? Oh wait, it is already protected!
I worked a lot on the standard scenarios, and this is such standard scenario. What to do when you are pinned (or think that you are pinned).
But the simple chess logic has never become fluent. It remained a system II exercise.
tempo said: "
ReplyDeleteIt took 3 minutes to see the magnet
I mean, what kind of problem is that? I either don't look at a certain part of the board OR I fail to realize the importance of what I see. Meaning, my attention is not where it should be"
This move is easy to see if you look short for CCT. Where is CCT in your thinking process? When i dont see a juicy tactical weakness which "works" then i start a cct screening.
In an old post I describe the discovery that the CCT method adds way too much redundancy in the form of silly moves that don't need to be scrutinized.
DeleteI use some pruned version of it in the study room, when I think of it.
This was a blitz problem, and in blitz mode there is no such thing as a thought process.
of course there is a thougt process, you did think something and it did not help you in the rigt way.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking directly about the unprotected knight and rook and about exchanging the Rf1 and so on Bxf2, did recognise.. dont work, what now? remembered my rule, did start looking for kingsafty and checks and found the solution quite in time
When in blitz mode, we are dependent of the internalized thought process. My list of flaws shows that what is internalized from the thought process is way beyond what I hoped it would be. On a positive note, there is a lot to gain with relative simple means. IF we could only find a #@$%! way to internalize the thought process.
Deletei dont think the thought process is a 100% must.. i think its a framework, a guidance
DeleteAs long as we have an idea, we can and should follow this idea, try to make it work but! try to see the drawbacks quick too, and then, when the moment of eeeeeeeehhhhhhhhmmmmmmm starts .. we remember where we are in our thinkingprocess and continue to follow it.. till the next idea pops up and we play around with this one.
At the moment i follow this idea: analse problematic puzzles shematically according to the thinkingprocess and the weakness,method,candidate,change by move model
Im now quite aware what i thought during may attempt