To live the life we desire to live, we must connect our ideals with reality. To develop intellectual capacity we must acquire knowledge. To make better decisions in life we need wisdom. To materialize our ideas we must be able to convert them into the physical world.
How We Think In Chess
White to play and checkmates in four moves. Composed by William Shinkman 1901.
The visual image thinker will first take a mental image of the position and will find the checkmate by moving the pieces in his mind move by move. The visual pattern thinker will look at the position and recognize that if the white king was on the b6 or a6 squares followed by Nc7++ is checkmate, and if the white king was on c8 followed by Nb6++ is checkmate. The verbal thinker will have an internal conversation and could ask for example; how would Capablanca and Fisher resolve this position? When we ask such profound question we force our brain to access short and long term memory about these two players ways of thinking. Since I learned visual pattern thinking with Capablanca, the answer will be revealed that way.
Answer to the problem: 1. Kc6 Na5+ 2. Kb6 Nc4+ 3. Ka6 followed by 4. Nc7++ checkmate. 1. Kc6 Nc8+ 2. Kc7 Ne6+ 3. Kc8 followed by 4. Nb6++ checkmate. 1. Kc6 c4 2. Kb6 followed by 3. Nc7++ is checkmate.
Take a mental picture of the position, close your eyes, and resolve the position by moving the pieces in your mind.
About Armando Valdizon
I am an IT Systems Engineer specializing in servers and networks. My passion for chess and technology allowed me to develop independent thinking and new thinking philosophy.
