Re: Board Visualisation Training

by chesskang February 7th 2011, 3:29 pm

Any updates from those that finished the visualization training? I will not start them for another month, but this post is very interesting.

by BorgQueen February 7th 2011, 5:56 pm

It was the most fun part of the course for me... I'd be sitting there, eyes closed, visualising. My wife would come up and see me and say "what the blazes are you doing?" to which I would answer "studying chess!"

That has to be weird to the outside world!! lol

by chesskang February 7th 2011, 6:05 pm

Thats good to hear, I have enough trouble trying to use flash cards to memorize squares colors! LOL

by BorgQueen February 7th 2011, 6:09 pm

Does that help? I've never even tried that!

by HangingKing February 7th 2011, 9:06 pm

I was told that croatian people even use their national flag !

by chesskang February 8th 2011, 7:40 am

BorgQueen wrote:Does that help? I've never even tried that!

It worked for multiplication back in 2nd grade and the Greek Gods back in College, thought I would give it a try. I try and picture the board then choose the color so I have a 3-d image in mind vs just knowing that every odd number is dark on a,c,e,g etc. LOL

by BorgQueen February 8th 2011, 8:37 am

I could "work out" each one... give me a square and I can figure what colour it is... but memorising the colour for each square so that I could respond instantly isn't where I am at. Should I try to memorise the colour of each square? Is there a benefit to this?

by chesskang February 8th 2011, 8:56 am

Oh wait a minute dont let me throw you off track. I am only in month 1...LOL I just noticed they said we need to be able to rattle them off (as well as how to move a N from d4 to f6 every path in our mind) so I just took the liberty to use flash cards for the colors initially. My wife thought they were for my son and put them in his room the other day...LOL

by BorgQueen February 8th 2011, 9:04 am

Did they say to be able to rattle them off? Damn... my failing memory strikes again! lol

by Mohammad Ashraf February 12th 2011, 12:51 pm

answers of level 1:Ne5!!
2:Qh5 and defence Qf6 after de5 Qg6 with compensation
3:b4 and after Qa6 Nc7 + +-
4:Qd4 seems good really.

by HangingKing February 12th 2011, 6:14 pm

1: ok
2: got this answer a few times, not bad but try the other side, what about b7 pawn ?
3: good (anyway Nc7 then b4 you grab 1 more pawn, but i agree, both win easily)
4: oh no! where is black dark square bishop ? Try to attack knight in d5.

Nice job !

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