How to Improve your Chess Visualization? | Part 7 | Chess Vision and Calculation Training

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In this video, IM Alex Astaneh is continuing the series on how to improve your chess visualization skills. This time, Alex tests your visualization abilities with another exercise where he is going through a given position from a master game. The goal of this exercise is to calculate and visualize the winning moves for white.

Visualization is the ability to picture a position in your mind, to hold that position in memory and to imagine how the pieces can move without actually moving them over the board. One of the biggest mistakes that we see, aspiring chess players make, is that they don’t practice their visualization skills anywhere near enough.

Check out the first five videos of the series:
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In order to improve your chess visualization, you should practice holding the position in your mind and developing your chess imagination. In this video, IM Alex Astaneh will show you one technique in which you can do this. In this series, eventually we will show you a variety of different techniques to constantly work on your chess visualization.

The technique shown in this video is a very simple one. IM Alex Astaneh will read out the moves from either side but rather than playing out the moves, one by one, he will instead only play out the moves in the position after four moves have been played by each side. The challenge of this exercise is that you must try to imagine the position, follow along with your mind’s eye and only afterwards he will show the position. The beauty of this exercise is that you can progressively increase it.

The world’s best chess players, like world champion Magnus Carlsen, are famous for being able to give simultaneous exhibitions where they play against ten, twenty or even more opponents at the same time wearing a blindfold around their head. That means that their visualization skills are so highly developed that they are able to hold all of these different positions in memory from the very beginning of a game to the end, all of them at the same time. Blindfold chess was considered miraculous for centuries, but now there is greater recognition of people who can keep track of more than one simultaneous blindfolded game. Grandmasters weren’t born knowing how to do that. It takes a lot of practice and patience, but after some time it will pay off.

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