Many great chess players have state that chess is a game of patterns, and these patterns you will learn only by acquiring experience and training. For me this has become more clear as I have gathered experience and I believe now that this is indeed true, it is all about patterns and experience in using them.
It's not enough to memorize patterns. You have to be able to understand them too!
I believe so, which is one of the reasons good play in chess especially, comes from repetition. This is because it makes use of the adaptive unconscious: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_unconscious - the more you develop it for chess - using the right principles, the better a player you become.
It's also about talent or in other words, inborn range of potential. Most people, no matter how much they learn or train, could never make it to top 100.
@odoaker2015 indeed you have to understand them, otherwise you could not effectively use them. Where I have come to see patterns is the Lichess training part where you have thousands of games to learn from and in most of them I come across some kind of pattern.
Yes. When you think about it, in fact, the universe is constructed out of patterns, too.
There are a lot of good studies here at Lichess. Please have a look at jomega's studies: lichess.org/study/ac6JRqJk (content of his studies). Here is his main study page: lichess.org/study/by/jomega
He has really high quality studies!
He has really high quality studies!
@viophile
more or less, yes chess is about the patterns. First GM who were learning chess by memorizing the patterns were A Alkekhine. Instead of learning the sequences of the moves he learned the patterns, he was the first modern GM. The more patterns you know the better player you are. Its like you know your middle game plan, if you know what to do in the middle game you are stronger than someone who is drifting without it.
more or less, yes chess is about the patterns. First GM who were learning chess by memorizing the patterns were A Alkekhine. Instead of learning the sequences of the moves he learned the patterns, he was the first modern GM. The more patterns you know the better player you are. Its like you know your middle game plan, if you know what to do in the middle game you are stronger than someone who is drifting without it.
"patterns"..."good moves"...whatever you say...
yeah patterns, blunders, good moves, zugzwangs, they are all the same.
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