Re: Visualwize Chess
Riley Boylan
GORDON PRESLEY: I have used the Visualwize program extensively and my visualization skills have significantly improved. Also, the program has helped my pattern recognition skills. The mating combinations demonstrated by these chess masters in actual games were brilliant and remarkable. I highly recommend this program.
JON: Visualwise is an essential tool for those who seriously want to progress in their pursuit of chess mastery. My chess visualizations became much clearer and sharper and this made calculation of deeper lines effortless. Expect to gain a few hundred ELO points improvements in a short duration after re-tuning your chess visions. Great Tool. Highly recommended.
REYNALDO: Visualwize is a great method for those who want to reach their full potential in chess. Making use of this tools make great improvement in playing chess.It is a secret weapon in a training sessions of chess players.Thanks to chessfox, you are the one who introduced this tool for us.
2Q1C, I've had that exact kind of problem in the past, but it's slowly going away for me. You have to realize that reading chess notation is NOT the same as reading your language(s). At least not totally exactly. When you read language, it evokes images, sounds, emotions and thoughts. Likewise when you read notation, you have to make it so that it will evoke a chessboard in your mind's eye, complete with pieces location, squares (and their color too ) , diagonals, piece control 'auras'. If I read Nf5 for instance, my mind pictures a light square with a knight on Black's kingside, it's 'aura' controlling dark squares e7, g7, h6, h4, g3, e3, d4 and d6, going clockwise. I've literally trained my brain to 'hallucinate' the chessboard. THIS IS DOABLE, you just have to start slow and allow your mind to form the images. It's only 64 squares, no bigger.
I am one of many. I am an amateur chess player trying to improve, but I have limited time because of, well, life and stuff. If you can identify with this description, then this site is for you. On the site I post book reviews, game analyses and tips for chess improvement and training. I am also proud to be a founding member of the #chesspunks community.
My experience shows me that in order to apply chess strategies during the game, remembering them alone is often not the main issue. There is a gap between just remembering a strategy and being able to apply it during your game.
If a good chess player looks at a chess board, he doesn't go through a mental list of these imbalances. Instead he already has good working knowledge of them, such that he can focus on how to improve his position upon them.
I found a very useful guide to thinking about both positional and tactical situations in an online course offered by VisualWize, who make chess visualization training software. You can find it here.
I've revisited this concept and I do the assessment by "color", meaning, assess each factor for each color separately. Whether this is practical in an OTB game is another matter, but if you play correspondence/daily games on any chess server that allows notes, it comes in handy A.F..
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