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The Four Things
Every move does four things. Noticing all of them is critical for accurate calculations.
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What is Conceptualization?
The power of Conceptualization, and why I'm abandoning the word 'visualization'
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Chess Visualization and Aphantasia: A Guide
Aphantasia is not a weakness in Chess. It just requires a different approach.
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Finding Your Model
Two Biases
Don't try to copy other people's brains. Find how yours wants to work instead.
Intuition Series
Your Enthusiastic Friend
Treat your intuition like an enthusiastic friend rated 200 points below you.
Seven Slots
One Key Resource
Why our working memory is the most important resource we have in Chess.
Why Blindfold?
Seeing the Matrix Code
The origin story of Don't Move Until You See It.
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Freewheeling
Why it often feels like our brain acts by itself when we're under pressure.
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Forgetting
The main reason you make one-move blunders.
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Freezing
Why our brain sometimes stops thinking and what we can do about it.
blunders
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The Loyal Labrador
Meet the primal, automatic part of your brain that causes your blunders.
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Second-Order Effects
The biggest mistakes and opportunities come from the less-obvious consequences of moves.
calculation
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The Position In Front Of Us
Unless you understand where you are, you have no hope of getting where you want to go.
calculation
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Simplifications
How our brains try to cope with the information overload of calculation.
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Seeking Clarity
The core challenge of calculation is in managing the limits of our brains.
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Resistance
The importance and difficulty of keeping Reason in charge most of the time.
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Train Your Brain
If we don't train the adult brain to handle Chess better, it will continue to let us down.
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Preventing Mistakes
How to avoid mistakes and how to recover when they happen anyway.
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Emotional Cascade
How tilt works and why it's so damaging to our Chess.
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Space to Think
Why we Freeze, Forget, and Freewheel in Chess games, and what we can do about it.
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Mentalpedia
Familiarity is a huge advantage in Chess, and the reason is rooted in your working memory and psychology.
working memory
Overload
When we push our working memory too far, things go wrong.
blunders
working memory
One Key Resource
Why our working memory is the most important resource we have in Chess.
blunders
working memory
start a series
What is Conceptualization?
The power of Conceptualization, and why I'm abandoning the word 'visualization'
working memory
The Mental Juggler
An ode to the part of our brain that keeps all the balls in the air: our working memory.
working memory