The Language of Chess May Be Visualization

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I was browsing the blogs at chess.com and found a few by an author who says he believes we need to learn the fundamentals of chess, but that those fundamentals are a bit different than most of us imagine. The following links go to several of his blog articles on this subject.

http://iplayoochess.com/2012/10/14/flaws-of-early-chess-cognition/

http://iplayoochess.com/2011/08/16/how-to-speed-up-learning-curve-in-chess/

http://iplayoochess.com/2011/08/18/how-to-build-a-better-chess-teacher/

http://iplayoochess.com/2012/09/13/superiority-of-visual-thinking-look-dont-think/

http://www.chess.com/blog/MomirRadovic/the-oldest-and-worst-chess-misconception-of-all-time

http://iplayoochess.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Expert-Chess-Memory-Revisiting-the-Chunking-Hypothesis-Gobet-and-Simon.pdf

Then, I was browsing another site and came across a video of Mikhail Tal giving a blindfold simultaneous exhibition for Soviet television.

There will not be a quiz later.


Enjoy!