Chess - A Thought Process Overview
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2024
- This video won **First Place** for Best Instructive Lesson (2023 videos) by the Chess Journalists of America :)
NM Dan Heisman overviews the idea of thought process in chess. What is it, how does it differ from thought content, what are the basic ingredients such as analysis, evaluation and time management, what are candidate moves, determining if a move is safe, etc.
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NM Dan Heisman has been a full-time chess instructor since 1996 and is the author of 12 chess books, the TV show "Q&A with Coach Heisman" on Chess.com and the radio show "Ask the Renaissance Man" on the Internet Chess Club. Radio personality Howard Stern was one of Dan's students. Dan tries to answer comments on UA-cam but for a quicker, more comprehensive answer (or questions about lessons), contact Dan via email, skype, or phone via Dan's website www.danheisman.com. His Chess Tip of the Day is @danheisman on Twitter, which won the award for "Best Twitter Feed" in 2021 from the Chess Journalists of America. #Chess #ImproveChess #ChessInstruction #ChessThinking #ChessThoughtProcess #ChessLesson #LearnChess #ChessCalculation
Thank you sir. I will remember this video when I reach 2000.
Hopefully in rating, not age! :)
Thank you for the video, Dan!
You are welcome. I thought it was a good one. Pass the word! :)
This video won the 2023 award for "Most Instructive Lesson" from the Chess Journalists of America! Thanks for watching. Want more on a good thought process? Check out my video on the 5 Essential elements of a good thought process ua-cam.com/video/40rjYtAXuDQ/v-deo.html
Thanks so much!
Thanks, glad to be of service :)
Thank you !
You are welcome. Hope you enjoy my other videos as well.
I really enjoyed the video, to stop calculating a move (or more) before quiescence is certainly a sin we are all guilty of. I am going through the Art of attack and it was nice to see many of the key moves pop up when you talked of the Greek Gift (Qxf7, some lines with h4 etc.).
Thanks! The Art of Attack is a fairly advanced book, but very good. I don't recommend it to students until they are 1600-1700+ and can consistently make safe moves, even if a little short on time.
I found the idea not to stop calculating a move before quiescence a bit contradictory with his last point on not needed to go deep for all candidates moves. Maybe it is just deep enough for quiescence?
Good stuff Dan!
Thanks Alen! I thought this was a good one, too :)
I appreciate your logic and precision in speaking. Your student was wrong to say that you were just arguing semantics.
Thanks, much appreciated. Everyone is entitled to their opinion (but we want to get the facts straight) :)
Does the question “Is that move safe?” only apply to the opponent’s pawns and pieces for checks and captures across all 64 squares? Or does it also apply to my pieces too as in, am I being attacked? Thank you.
awesome lesson thanks Dan ! If you go through the process to add enable and monetize this channel the YT algorithm will recommend your channel and content more. Funny that... YT will prioritize making money over inspiring add free content, also funny that ! All the best Dan
What I found strange is I got this video recommended on my other UA-cam account which I don't interact on. So, not only do they want you to monetize your video, they want the viewers to be passive coach potatoes.
Interesting. My channel is already approved for monetizing; I just having done it since I generally want my channel to be as accessible as possible. But if what you say is so, then maybe I should monetize just so I can help more people?! Got to give that some thought...
It would be better if you can use arrows
Thanks. Sometimes I do use arrows, but most of the time I don't because 1) Many viewers would prefer I did not 2) It slows down the video a little, and 3) It discourages marginal players from doing the visualization, which is an important skill to develop. So if I am doing a video that I know is a little strong for the intended viewer then arrows will help, but if the intended viewer is more of the level where the arrows are redundant then it would be better not to use them, IMHO.
While watching this video, I was playing a game and this position came up: 8/1R6/P2n2p1/3k4/7R/7P/6PK/8 w - - 1
I am interested in knowing a higher level thought process here. A quick glance at Stockfish shows it doesn't care about the rook and pawn as much as I did in the game. It shows Nd7 or a7, which is very counter-intuitive to me. I played Rb1 with the idea that if Nc8, the other rook would come in with Ra4. Then, if the knight was played to plug up the a file with Na7, the first rook would go to b7. Is this just a beginner's way to preserve the material on the board? This is how I think when I don't see the mate in ~10. Ok, ok, I never see mate in ~10.
This would be a better phone or Skype conversation than a quick comment. You can always call me via www.danheisman.com. But yes, my info on thought process in this video just scratched the surface. That's why I write books like The Improving Chess Thinker (hope you have it) or de Groot did his seminal work Thought and Choice in Chess.
Slightly off-topic but I fell into a hand--waving error on move three after assuming I understood the position. I didn't realise I need to be absolutely sure the position is safe. It was 1.c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 e5 losing a pawn to 4. Nb5 . I was super upset for hand-waving but I thought "hey it's only move 3 surely the position is quiet" but I should have looked a move ahead.
Michael, thanks. I assume you mean 3...e4 4.Ng5. Any time you consider an "AWL" ("Attack with something worth less; see ua-cam.com/video/GxQ_3S9JhHQ/v-deo.html) against a piece, it only makes sense to have a good idea about where it is going and whether you want it to go there. Otherwise if he makes a threat and you had not considered how to meet it on the previous move, it is "Hope Chess". Yes, it can be both hand-waving and Hope Chess with enough lack of proper thought :)
@@danheismanchess yes I meant 3... e4 . thanks a lot.
You rattle through the moves so quickly that I simply cannot follow. Please just slow right down if you want to help..
i apologize if that part of the video is too fast for you. It is tough to make a video where all aspects are right for everyone; what is too fast for some are just right for others. When I sometimes go too fast for video watchers, they can always pause and digest. Also, depending on my expected audience, there is a certain amount of material I want to cover in 25-30 min so that dictates how much I put in; when I am showing my "real-time" thought process I can't speak as fast as I can think, so I am speaking as fast as I can legibly address the audience to reflect what is really happening. This was an award-winning video so hopefully the speed was right for a majority of the audience.
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