About the Rules & Moderation category (Part 1)

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#20649

I know the structure of chess, I know the kinds of things you’re supposed to learn. I don’t know any of the actual information about it

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#20650

Does that make sense

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#20651

I tried to put on chess videos in the background a while ago to passively absorb info but it didn’t work

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#20652

nyaaaaaaaa it does

so I’m assuming you know about, like

  • studying tactics
    • lets you recognize patterns faster
    • improves visualization/calculation
  • learning opening principles, then later learning specific openings, then maybe eventually getting to the point where it’s worth it to memorize lines
  • learning endgames (basic checkmates → simple pawn endgames → more complex stuff)
  • learning positional principles
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#20653

Yeah basically. That’s the things I know exist. I don’t know anything that falls under those categories of knowledge

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#20654

personally I used https://chesstempo.com/ for tactics puzzles
it’s been a while since I’ve done them there so it’s possible they’ve changed, but in my experience that website was better than lichess/chess.com for it

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#20655

tactics are very important tbthbthbthtbh
if you’re bad at tactics you’re bad at chess
if you’re good at tactics you’re pretty good at chess

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#20656

We were talking about visual imagination a couple days ago and somebody asked how good mine is and I said “it’s like okay” and they said “okay so very good, got it”

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#20657

NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

thtbthbthbthtb it’s kinda hard to measure that when you have nothing to compare to since you can’t just see inside other people’s visualizations

#20658

I just know I have enough visualization for math thbthtbhtbthbthb

#20659

It is but also like you can use descriptions and comparisons. Like this one guy mentioned his visual imagination is like a movie scene where the main character has amnesia and is recalling memories in flashes. It’s like a flash of “APPLE” “BACK OF APPLE”. I found that very evocative

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#20660

nyaaaaaaaa interesting
I don’t have flashes thbthtbhtb
if I’m seeing something then it is continuously there

#20661

I had a moment in Inorganic I where I was trying to find all the stereoisomers of this dimer and I couldn’t rotate the thing in my mind. I had to draw it out on the page and rotate it step by step there. I was very embarrassed

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#20662

most often those things are math related thbthtbthbthb
even if they’re not typical visual things I am often visualizing them if I don’t have a paper (namely equations)

#20663

Stereochemistry in general really tests your spacial reasoning. Mine isn’t so good

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#20664

Nyaaaaaaaaaaa :pensive:
IDK if that kind of visualization is what’s needed in chess tho thtbhtbthbthb

#20665

I forgot we were talking about chess

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#20666

Oh I brought up visual imagination as an example of a skill I say I’m bad at which is judged as me being good at it. It wasn’t about visualisation in chess. That makes more sense

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#20667

I DON’T get this about every tragic event. It’s a substantially different feeling to what I get about deaths in the family. So I suspect the commonality here is the blow to my ego?

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#20668

to some degree you can get away without visualizing/calculating
like, in puzzle battle (where you and another player are trying to solve as many tactics puzzles as possible in 3 minutes) IMO it’s sometimes optimal to not calculate everything and just play the probably right move