tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post1636053011988054125..comments2024-03-29T14:33:24.765+01:00Comments on Temposchlucker: Finishing the stategy moduleTemposchluckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-43277098448478217582007-12-31T16:05:00.000+01:002007-12-31T16:05:00.000+01:00Gorckat,thx for the cheering.Gorckat,<BR/>thx for the cheering.Temposchluckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-79098289078552994402007-12-31T16:04:00.000+01:002007-12-31T16:04:00.000+01:00Glen,maybe I'm just too inexperienced to make a bi...Glen,<BR/>maybe I'm just too inexperienced to make a big plan and should I train that first before I'm able to apply it OTB. For years I have only focused on one big plan: "kill the King". Maybe that now I have solved my eternal time trouble problem that I will find more time OTB to think about big plans.<BR/><BR/><I>For tactics I generally do not use a textual narrative. My hook is often a visual image integrated with the board.<BR/><BR/></I>When I started with tactical problems I didn't seem to need anything. But after 100k+ exercises my mind feels "tactical training numb". The mind doesn't seem to distingish between the moves anymore. But when I use a little narrative the storage and retrieval of solutions works again as it used to.<BR/><BR/>It is remarkable that this "numbness" isn't present with strategical exercises at all. I attribute this to the little narrative that works as a unique "tag" to distinct the different solutions. The fact that the descriptions in PCT often are in funny english (other than my own:)is helpful as well to make this extra distinction.<BR/><BR/>The fact that a lot happens unconscious makes it difficult to understand what is happening.Temposchluckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-6567496576923092582007-12-31T14:50:00.000+01:002007-12-31T14:50:00.000+01:00Congrats on getting it done! I hate the surprises ...Congrats on getting it done! I hate the surprises of long units in PCT; I can get the regular ones in Tactics doen in ~30 minutes, but when they drop the big ones it usually takes ~60 and often gets split into two sessions because I only had the 30 minutes.<BR/><BR/>I've also made my own narrative for the tactics stuff. Like Glenn, I can see a solution and know it is correct, but I look for something to show me why.gorckathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16133042147776200704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-80388229593824643332007-12-31T13:06:00.000+01:002007-12-31T13:06:00.000+01:00I must do something similar in retrieving the answ...I must do something similar in retrieving the answers but I am often not aware of scanning. But when I am it reminds me that I'd like to be able to adjust the size of the board in PCT so I can more easily take in the whole scene in one glance.<BR/><BR/>Testmoves are tried? Yes, sometimes but especially for the later repetitions I think I go straight to recall.<BR/><BR/>Big plan vs. little plan.<BR/>Yes, PCT focuses on little plan based on what I've done so far. Little plan is easily trainable in their format and represents key fundamental building blocks of chess knowledge.<BR/><BR/>But no big plans or backwards thinking in OTB? I do lots of big plan thinking and backwards thinking during OTB games at even quick time controls like G/30. I try to do the longer term "big plan" thinking on my opponents time and limit thinking on my time to pure tactics. I may use backwards thinking on my opponents time to find a goal. After the opponent moves I spend time to examine the specific tactics to see if I can achieve the goals I identified while thinking on his/her time.<BR/><BR/>I may examine "fantasy" lines on their time based on backward thinking and the like and then later see if there is a way to make them concrete..<BR/><BR/><I>Both reconstruction and verification are at least partly conscious processes.</I><BR/>I'm not sure that is necessarily true for me for reconstruction. <BR/><BR/>Often the first thing I am consciously aware of (for later reps) is the answer (meaning the first move). BTW, I see this as the goal of the repetitions. This is the "cheating" that some people refer to. I can play the problem out without thinking because I know all of the moves. I have to consciously think to know why they are correct but I "know" they are.<BR/><BR/><I>These textual associations play an important role in both storage and retrieval.</I><BR/>I generally use the PCT comments or an excerpt of them in the strategy module as the narrative (with a corrected translation if needed) -- when I use one. For tactics I generally do not use a textual narrative. My hook is often a visual image integrated with the board. It just occurred to me why I dislike CT-ART's key square stuff -- it interferes with me doing the same sort of thing. Or, my hook is the key move or last move of the combination -- I just "see" that and associate it with the board position somehow. At least, that is what I think I do (not a conscious process).Glenn Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098720545929557126noreply@blogger.com