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I can't visualize properly in games

#1

I see that high level gm's calculate the variations and calculate the possibilities and visualize it in their heads. I can't visualize properly. Sometimes when i try to calculate and try to visualize knight takes bishop takes. That i have trouble doing it. I can surely calculate every thing but i can't see the pieces move and something like that and i calculate in chess very badly and lose.

I see that high level gm's calculate the variations and calculate the possibilities and visualize it in their heads. I can't visualize properly. Sometimes when i try to calculate and try to visualize knight takes bishop takes. That i have trouble doing it. I can surely calculate every thing but i can't see the pieces move and something like that and i calculate in chess very badly and lose.
#2

It comes with experience: practice makes perfect.
You can train it by reading chess books without a chess set.
Ivanchuk used to look at the ceiling instead of at the board, as he used to read chess books without a chess set during long train journeys.

It comes with experience: practice makes perfect. You can train it by reading chess books without a chess set. Ivanchuk used to look at the ceiling instead of at the board, as he used to read chess books without a chess set during long train journeys.
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#4

I also had this problem. I was just so bad at visualizing and calculation that I'd lose many games just because I would play moves according to my intuition and, of course, me being a beginner, it didn't go well, cuz I didn't have the experience to trust my intuition yet. I
So to improve my visualization and calculation, I started doing puzzles and it worked wonders. Initially, I would get frustrated if got a puzzle wrong but then, I practiced patience and calculated and visualized every forced move in the puzzles. Due to this, I reached from 1700 to 1900 in puzzles. Moreover, my Rapid rating soared from the 1480s to 1600 now. I just couldn't believe that I had gone about 120 points higher. It was an amazing feat for me.
Hence, the moral is to do puzzles as it is a wonderful exercise for calculation and visualizing. If you really want to go 1700+, you have to do puzzles. Whenever I plan to play some games, I make sure to do some puzzles before I start playing so that I kinda exercise my mind.
And you should be sooo grateful to Lichess as it provides FREE and UNLIMITED puzzles and its puzzle system has enhanced sooo much too, so you can practice anything you want; anything you feel you are weak at. This way, your tactics will also improve as well as calculating and visualizing.

I also had this problem. I was just so bad at visualizing and calculation that I'd lose many games just because I would play moves according to my intuition and, of course, me being a beginner, it didn't go well, cuz I didn't have the experience to trust my intuition yet. I So to improve my visualization and calculation, I started doing puzzles and it worked wonders. Initially, I would get frustrated if got a puzzle wrong but then, I practiced patience and calculated and visualized every forced move in the puzzles. Due to this, I reached from 1700 to 1900 in puzzles. Moreover, my Rapid rating soared from the 1480s to 1600 now. I just couldn't believe that I had gone about 120 points higher. It was an amazing feat for me. Hence, the moral is to do puzzles as it is a wonderful exercise for calculation and visualizing. If you really want to go 1700+, you have to do puzzles. Whenever I plan to play some games, I make sure to do some puzzles before I start playing so that I kinda exercise my mind. And you should be sooo grateful to Lichess as it provides FREE and UNLIMITED puzzles and its puzzle system has enhanced sooo much too, so you can practice anything you want; anything you feel you are weak at. This way, your tactics will also improve as well as calculating and visualizing.
#6

I have never been able to visualise chess in my mind and always need to see the board and pieces. I can't even picture my own house let alone a puzzle position.
There is a condition called aphantasia which affects a small percentage of people who have no "mind's eye" and it impacts on the ability to see dream imagery too. Clearly it hasn't stopped me from making some progress in chess but who knows what standard I might have been able to maintain with better visualization.

I have never been able to visualise chess in my mind and always need to see the board and pieces. I can't even picture my own house let alone a puzzle position. There is a condition called aphantasia which affects a small percentage of people who have no "mind's eye" and it impacts on the ability to see dream imagery too. Clearly it hasn't stopped me from making some progress in chess but who knows what standard I might have been able to maintain with better visualization.
#8

Me and my best friend (@)armxyz1 used to play mind chess in school before COVID and now whenever any one of us call each other for any matter, we play a quick mind chess. Generally, we both fail to visualise after move 25 and earlier we used to accept draw by 25th move. So now we just do exchanges as early as possible and can visualise when there are at most 10 pieces on the board in total.

Me and my best friend (@)armxyz1 used to play mind chess in school before COVID and now whenever any one of us call each other for any matter, we play a quick mind chess. Generally, we both fail to visualise after move 25 and earlier we used to accept draw by 25th move. So now we just do exchanges as early as possible and can visualise when there are at most 10 pieces on the board in total.
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