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The chess playing mind does not work like a machine. Selecting a move results from rather chaotic thought processes and is not the logical outcome of applying a rational method.
The only problem with that, says International Master Willy Hendriks, is that most books and courses on improving at chess claim exactly the opposite. The dogma of the chess instruction establishment is that if you only take a good look at certain ‘characteristics’ of a position, then good moves will follow more or less automatically.
But this is not how it happens. Chess players, weak and strong, don’t first judge the position, then formulate a plan and afterwards look at moves. It all happens at the same time, and pretending that it is otherwise is counterproductive. There is no use in forcing your students to mentally jump through theoretical hoops, according to experienced chess coach Hendriks.
This work shows a healthy distrust of accepted methods to get better at chess. It teaches that winning games does not depend on ticking off a to-do list when looking at a position on the board. It presents club and internet chess players with loads of much-needed no-nonsense training material. In this provocative, entertaining and highly instructive book, Hendriks shows how you can travel light on the road to chess improvement!
- Sales Rank: #1132586 in Books
- Brand: The House of Staunton
- Published on: 2012-08-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.16" h x .64" w x 6.73" l, 1.06 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 254 pages
Features
- Author: Willy Hendriks
- Pages: 256
- Publication Years: 2014
Review
One of the most original chess books the judges have seen for a number of years. Both serious and highly entertaining at the same time.
(Judges of English Chess Federation)
What a fantastic book! I have not enjoyed reading an instructional book so much in years. I was laughing out loud throughout, because it is very witty, but it is also a really important instructional volume.
(Steve Giddins)
Hendriks uses many new examples to make his point. A very entertaining and provocative read. I'm sure readers will improve their chess.
(International Master Arthur van de Oudeweetering ChessVibes)
I can't really express just how much I enjoyed Move First Think Later by Willy Hendriks.
(Mark Crowther The Week In Chess)
For anyone interested in chess in a broader context, I highly recommend reading Move First, Think Later by Willy Hendriks. (Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura)
Really a fantastic book, loaded with fresh ideas and excellent examples. After reading this book you will feel like Neo in the film The Matrix, when he discovers that his life so far was an illusion and that his real life will start only now.
(Martin Rieger Rochade Europa Magazine)
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52 of 57 people found the following review helpful.
Witty, thought-provoking, and instructive
By Christopher J. Falter
In this collection of miniature essays, International Master Willy Hendriks presents the implications of recent advances in cognitive science for chess players and trainers. Hendriks is the little boy who, observing the parade of standard chess pedagogy, cries out that the king is in fact naked. While he is not afraid to name names, this is no diatribe; his playful wit and pithy phrases make this book a fun and instructive journey. (I don't think his cat really got to expert level after a year of chess lessons, but it was a fun way to talk about how talent might prevail over deliberate practice!)
Hendriks aims his empirical fire at several deeply cherished notions in the chess community:
* The right thinking process over the board will make you strong.
* Develop a good long-range plan before you think about specific moves.
* Follow adages, such as "respond to a flank attack with a central counterattack."
* Trainers know the right methods of chess improvement.
* Anyone can become an international master with 10,000 hours of deliberate practice.
* Pay attention to your recent results to figure out where you are and what's working.
Citing the research that shows grandmasters don't analyze more deeply than experts, but use their memories much more intensively during a game, Hendriks concludes that our subconscious engages in matching candidate maneuvers to a reservoir of patterns to find a good move. This is why a chess player does not really engage in rational thought, or long-range planning, before looking around for good moves. After the game he might provide a narrative for what happened, but the ensuing narrative does not necessarily reflect his actual thinking during the game.
Hendriks draws a helpful analogy between playing chess and having a conversation; just as you do not draw up a long-range plan in the middle of a conversation, you do not draw up a long-range plan before examining candidate chess moves. You might have some idea of where you want to go (as you do when you speak), but it's not easily verbalized in the midst of the game (or conversation). Moreover, just as a 7 year-old can speak quite competently by virtue of having absorbed the details of language without any training in the rules of grammar or punctuation, you grow in chess ability primarily by absorbing, via play and training, thousands of typical maneuvers.
Thus if you want to play better chess you must "feed the beast," your chess-playing subconscious brain, with a steady diet of chess patterns from master games and analysis of your own games. Hendriks provides a wealth of novel and really useful training ideas for this process, any one of which would justify the price of purchase. My favorite, and one that I've started using, is the practice of entering into the game score the candidate moves you (or your opponent) didn't play so your chess engine can provide an impartial, expert evaluation of the moves' soundness.
Hendriks illustrates his ideas with a wealth of positions and game fragments, so you're developing more chess skill while you learn about the process of developing chess skill. Nice!
Like pretty much any author that challenges long-held paradigms, Hendriks occasionally overstates his point. Hendriks disparages the advocates of plans and adages because verbal protocols don't really help us find good moves during a game. True enough, but on the other hand they might serve very effectively as meta-patterns that help our chess-playing brains acquire and make use of thousands of specific maneuvers/patterns. Here Hendriks' analogy to language learning is apropos, because familiarity with grammar, verb conjugations, and noun declensions (the meta-patterns or rules of language) can help you master a language. As high school language courses demonstrate, mastering the meta-patterns does you no good without putting in the hard work of using the language in live situations--listening to native speakers, asking them questions, and getting feedback on your mistakes. In this sense Hendriks' cautions about verbal protocols in chess are correct. But as I discovered when I was mastering Arabic, knowing the rules of the language when you hear a new word or phrase helps you recognize what's going on, and helps you use that word or phrase in the future. The same applies to chess, I think: knowing the language of tactics, evaluation, and typical plans (the meta-patterns) can help you categorize, absorb, and make use of the specific bits of chess knowledge you encounter. Thus the works of planning and adage advocates like Kotov and Silman can have real value, as long as you apply them with a substantial grain of salt.
In addition, Hendriks' insists that talent is just as important as deliberate practice without providing any empirical evidence. Upon first reading, I thought that Andersson's study of Berlin music students, a fine empirical work and the basis of several popular works on deliberate practice, must carry the day against Hendriks. But with a couple of hours of googling, I discovered that Campitelli and Gobet's 2007 study of Argentinian chess players had clinched the point for the importance of talent. (Search for "Mastering Chess: Deliberate Practice Is Necessary but Not Sufficient.") Hambrick and Meinz' 2011 study comparing the influence of "working memory" (native brain capability) with that of deliberate practice on music sight-reading could also be cited. Hendriks could have made his point much more clearly and successfully if he had cited these studies.
In spite of these imperfections, though, Hendriks' work is so refreshing, novel, and useful that I must give it my highest recommendation for anyone who enjoys chess.
Note: The publisher provided a copy of this book to me in exchange for my honest review. My ratings of the publisher's books have ranged from 3 stars to 5 stars.
31 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Theory of mind meets chess = bad news for the aging chess brain!
By Igelfeld
It's not very often that an entire book is summarized by the title, but this is such a book. The outrageous title is the author's way of making a point that is actually quite old or namely if you expose your brain to good moves in a given position, your brain will assimilate this into it's inner processing and help you choose the best move.
The book is filled with psychology, philosophy, and quite frankly opinion. The basic idea really is that many of the conventional approaches to chess improvement simply are contrived and hard to implement into a clear and coherent method for OTB play. I can't argue with him on that having read many (hundreds) of chess books. The author argues that making a plan is close to non-sensical because very few people can see how a game might morph too far in advance. He also is highly critical of "advice" given by authors who are trying to shape the thinking of their book-reading students. Jeremy Silman is heavy target of Hendriks because of his "advice-like" style of chess instruction. But to be fair, the author rejects almost all chess advice given in books and instead himself just advises "pick a good move".
He spends most of the book trying to justify this approach and it relies heavily on his work on the theory of mind. I tend to think he's on to something here and it really is based on force feeding the brain with well-annotated games. The idea being that if you see a good example of an idea that is tactically possible, you'll consider it yourself and hopefully calculate correctly if it works in your position. So, this is good for young developing brains, but not so great for aging chess brains (probably over 25), and if true, means that you can't expect to really advance much as an aging chess player (again, anyone over 25). My guess is that statistically this is somewhat true. And the only hope that you might have if you're over 25 is if your brain has already had to do a similarly kind of processing for some other activity (and can get those synaps firing despite your age).
So, why just 4 stars?
The book simply does not really address enough elements of chess to be complete. For example, you certainly can't do the "move first, think later" mechanism playing correspondence chess. I can tell you right now that you'll lose. In other words, the iterative process doesn't fit well within this outlook. In fact, this highlights a problem even with his initial thesis and mantra. For example, many chess players will be drawn to an idea or move and then iterate based on the problems associated with evaluating that move. This is the basis of the book Imagination in Chess and really more accurately represents how a chess player works through candidate moves. This really isn't developed during the book which subsequently leaves some fairly large holes. In addition, his criticism of authors like Silman, Soltis, Watson (coincidence that they're all Americans?) is really unfair, even if there is more than a strand of truth to some of the criticism. Silman is trying to connect with players who are trying to learn chess without spending hundreds of hours on the internet teaching their brains the right patterns etc.. I personally think that Silman's treatment of imbalance in positions is amongst the best in chess material. The author correctly states that it's too much to think consciously about features of a position, but at some point, you need some instruction that gives you the over-arching idea. Often game collections, written by strong IMs and GMs, don't think (and subsequently express) the positional features that their brain knew and then communicate to the learning student. An excellent book is Chess Blueprints because it not only provides the examples to program your chess brain, but provides the meta-idea that hopefully you can apply in your games.
So, as a wrap-up, this is a book that should be read by any aspiring chess student, and if you put the work in, you'll improve your chess by doing the things that the author sugggests (studying well-annotated games, studying middle game positions to find a good move, using a computer to analyze your games to provide the corrective feedback for your brain. The author does have a dry sense of humor, but I don't believe that Steve Giddins laughed all the way through the book. The book is very readable without a chess board and this is what I consider a "quick" chess read (less than a week or two). But if you don't like psychology, philosophy, or think that Stephen Pinker is a destabilizing force in academic thought (he is the one that advised Larry Summors, then president of Harvard, that girls were not predisposed to be good at science), you might want to take a pass on this book. But I will say that this book supports the data that has young kids playing thousands of hours on the internet and working their way up to strong players very quickly. Of course this is a bit depressing for the rest of us who are past 25 and can only expect "modest to little" improvement if Hendrik's theory is correct.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Finally, a sensible book on how to get better at chess
By Jim Rickman
I think this book is fantastic. Rather than giving artificial rules on analyzing positions, the author emphasizes that what really matters is your repertoire of patterns. This is gained with a lot of experience at the chess board, playing your own games and going over and analyzing GM games.
This is what I try to do on a daily basis:
1) Play at least 3 games each day on the internet. First, analyze them on your own and write down the thoughts you had during the game. Then, run it by a strong chess program. Make note of any chess patterns you find interesting. Are they similar to patterns you recall in a GM game?
2) Choose at least 3 GM games from the active strong GM chess tournaments being contested. Two of these games should come from the realm of your own opening repertoire (one as White, one as Black). The third game should come from an opening/defense that you are not familiar with. Thoroughly analyze at least two of these games on your own and with a strong chess program. What you want to experience is as many different types of positions as possible. This way, you'll increase your repertoire of chess patterns. During your own games, your unconscious will access these patterns and feed your thinking. The more you do such practice, the stronger, wiser, and more intuitive you'll become as a chess player.
3) As bedtime reading, get a chess book which presents chess positions to solve.
If you do this on a daily basis, you will be guaranteed to become a difficult player for your opponents to play against.
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