Interesting, thanks for posting!
Slightly off-topic: I've been playing a lot of online chess recently, using the standard 2d board. I find it surprisingly hard to switch to a physical 3d board, the pieces just don't look familiar. I wonder if this is due to my habit of picturing the 2d position in my head (as opposed to focusing on verbal descriptions).
Slightly off-topic: I've been playing a lot of online chess recently, using the standard 2d board. I find it surprisingly hard to switch to a physical 3d board, the pieces just don't look familiar. I wonder if this is due to my habit of picturing the 2d position in my head (as opposed to focusing on verbal descriptions).
@z6_6 said in #12:
> Interesting, thanks for posting!
>
> Slightly off-topic: I've been playing a lot of online chess recently, using the standard 2d board. I find it surprisingly hard to switch to a physical 3d board, the pieces just don't look familiar. I wonder if this is due to my habit of picturing the 2d position in my head (as opposed to focusing on verbal descriptions).
Thank you for reading! That's a neat question I hadn't thought of: When playing at a 3D board, do people visualize using a mental image of that 3D board or do they revert to the 2D board to calculate? Given how many people train with digital tools (or books!) the 2D board is possibly more familiar, but you'd expect a cost for translating between 2D/3D. Don't think anyone has looked at this experimentally, but it would be a fun idea.
> Interesting, thanks for posting!
>
> Slightly off-topic: I've been playing a lot of online chess recently, using the standard 2d board. I find it surprisingly hard to switch to a physical 3d board, the pieces just don't look familiar. I wonder if this is due to my habit of picturing the 2d position in my head (as opposed to focusing on verbal descriptions).
Thank you for reading! That's a neat question I hadn't thought of: When playing at a 3D board, do people visualize using a mental image of that 3D board or do they revert to the 2D board to calculate? Given how many people train with digital tools (or books!) the 2D board is possibly more familiar, but you'd expect a cost for translating between 2D/3D. Don't think anyone has looked at this experimentally, but it would be a fun idea.
In identifying pins and ways to break pins, thus resolving the liability of a prospectively loose piece, awareness/identification might seem more relevant than visualization or verbalization.