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Oct. 21st, 2002 08:57 amThose of you who play chess might have noticed that, after a while, you stop seeing illegal moves in your mind. If your bishop is at e4, and theirs is at e5, you know the two are not attacking each other, and in fact will never attack each other throughout the whole game.
I have heard that it is in this way that better players of chess no longer see bad moves or pitfalls as options. Letting down their guard to a square just isn't an option if, for example, an enemy could send in a knight which attacks both your king and rook.
This is why it takes me two minutes to make a move instead of thirty seconds; I'm literally playing out these scenarios in my head where things don't work, whereas my opponent has already learned, from playing hundreds of games, what the best move for their situation is. The moves I'm throwing out, and perhaps even some of the moves I'm choosing, are moves they would never have considered if they were on my side of the board.
I have heard that it is in this way that better players of chess no longer see bad moves or pitfalls as options. Letting down their guard to a square just isn't an option if, for example, an enemy could send in a knight which attacks both your king and rook.
This is why it takes me two minutes to make a move instead of thirty seconds; I'm literally playing out these scenarios in my head where things don't work, whereas my opponent has already learned, from playing hundreds of games, what the best move for their situation is. The moves I'm throwing out, and perhaps even some of the moves I'm choosing, are moves they would never have considered if they were on my side of the board.
