How to Improve your Chess Visualization? | Part 2 | Chess Vision and Calculation Training |

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In this second video for visualization, IM Alex Astaneh is continuing to show you, how you can practice our visualization skills. 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.
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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. It involves playing over master level games, in this case a game played between Aaron Nimzowitsch and Simon Sinowjewitsch Alapin. IM Alex Astaneh will read out the first four 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 and imagine the position, follow along with your mind’s eye and only afterwards will he 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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@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

We apologize for the graphical error at 6:23min. Hopefully this mistake does not disturb you too much.

@davidwestwood6850 4 жыл бұрын

😯🤔

@muntoonxt 4 жыл бұрын

Here's to my sweet Satan.

@MrCosinuus 4 жыл бұрын

There was an graphical error?! (Sorry, I just listened, din't look at the board)

@ahmadasyraf7939 4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was intentional. It spice up the video abit. Anyhow, thanks for the video.

@darthjarjar_7918 Жыл бұрын

@@ahmadasyraf7939 yeah I thought it was just an edit 😂

@valerijamelnikovic6979 3 жыл бұрын

Your content is high quality, thanks so much.

@Chessfactor 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@garyinternet5436 4 ай бұрын

I can cope with the moves being called out just fine when I slow the pace of the video to 0.75x speed. However at 1x speed I find that around the third move for Black I'm scrambling to remember what Alex just said. These videos are pure gold.

@roknovak4155 3 жыл бұрын

I can certainly calculate 4 move lines in my games and when solving puzzles, but reliably visualizing with the moves being called out like this (and at this pace) I find pretty hard. And I'm about 2100 on Lichess, lol. Ah well - something to work on. I very much like the idea of this series.

@wilmereriksson4177 3 жыл бұрын

Same here, he is talking so fast lol

@Hellosange Жыл бұрын

same here, so I play the video at a slower rate

@unh0lys0da16 Жыл бұрын

This means you calculate in your head without the coordinates.

@tompagano9015 4 ай бұрын

Wow, glad an expert player, I am a class A player, has trouble with these exercises. The exercise is difficult because it is auditory and rapid.We don’t have the help of seeing the moves on paper in a book when we follow a master game without a board. If the cadence is fast as in a blitz game we get lost because if we don’t understand the logic of the move , we can’t remember it.

@notdream2848 Жыл бұрын

Please make more of these

@hermanodejesus7264 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent work!!!!

@antonsteinhart3398 4 жыл бұрын

I love this series :) This video helps a lot! Thanks

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

Great to hear that! If you continue watching the other videos of the series, you will see that you can stepwise improve your visualization skills. Let us know how it pays off.

@ETHANGELIST 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant tricky plays by White. I ran it through Stockfish and there were so many deadly combinations

@user-ff6lm4xe5y 4 жыл бұрын

You really helped me, I'm looking for a lot of time on this skill training, the video is invested and professional thanks

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

We are glad to hear that and we hope that you enjoy the series on Visualization.

@robertrenk7074 3 ай бұрын

Thank you sir. This is excellent advice if you want to improve. Many years ago I used to train my visualization skills by going over chess miniatures where on side wins in less than 15 moves. It definitely helped with my visualization. Need to train this vital skill again.

@_rishivhare 3 жыл бұрын

This is top class pedagogy! Amazing lessons! I am hooked :)

@Chessfactor 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your nice comment! We are happy to hear that you liked the lesson and hope that you enjoy the rest of the series as well.

@yerlibilgin 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much man. I closed my eyes and tried to visualize it even without looking at the board. That is fantastic.

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

That's great! Keep going.

@winstonrooseveltarchiboldg4786 4 жыл бұрын

Very helpfull video!!!

@mahdinoroozi1614 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing substantial stuff

@XFlyingDutchmanX 3 жыл бұрын

Great training method

@AbysmalPea2 4 жыл бұрын

Paused the video immediately after you said the game was over very shortly to try calculating a continuation, and Im glad I calculated the mate before knowing that there was a mate in 2. Pretty sure that one exercise helped my vision more than the hundreds of tactics problems Ive done over the years

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations that you calculated the correct continuation. Also, we are happy to hear that visualization training seems to be the right way for you to go. Keep going!

@chesslessons8730 4 жыл бұрын

Very helpful videos

@LoneWolf2308 4 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video series! Keep going & best regards

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that you like the series. Stay tuned!

@Socrates... 4 жыл бұрын

I love this video, thank you

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

@bobpurnell6721 4 жыл бұрын

I LOVED this Alex!! Just missed the final move. Could you please repeat the continuations just once? Sometimes my memory is helped a LOT if I hear something a 2nd time.

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

Great to hear that you like the visualization videos. We will try to consider your proposal of saying the moves twice for future recordings. Stay tuned!

@saintsaens21 4 жыл бұрын

Very helpful! Just a bit difficult to distinguish the white pieces over the white squares.

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment, we will try to improve the contrast for the upcoming videos with the green chessboard. For future videos, we will use a wooden chessboard with Staunton pieces for a better contrast.

@hamidrezaakbarnezhad2018 3 жыл бұрын

Tnks. Thats soooo goid for biginners like me🙏🙏

@Chessfactor 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that! Keep going, there are more videos to come.

@abishreyshrestha7594 4 жыл бұрын

thanks a lot for this series

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

@abishreyshrestha7594 4 жыл бұрын

@@Chessfactor does practicing visualization in online games help in over the board games?

@azamrustam8317 Жыл бұрын

good keep on goining

@IgorItkin 2 жыл бұрын

Man, where were you 30 years ago? Should I look at the board or keep it entirely in my mind, even without looking? How do you imagine the board when you are not looking at the board? How is it looks like?

@FSFITA 2 жыл бұрын

I started laughing when I solved that in my mind 6 moves before It happened, you're really helping an NC here

@michaelkrailo5725 Жыл бұрын

This was hard for me to visualize and I didn't get the reason why black didn't take the bishop with bxc6 until actually moving the pieces into position on the board and seeing the pin. Guess I need a lot of work on visualization. It's the absolute key skill to master in the chess world. My question is how do we practice visualization like this by our selves without you calling out moves. That's what I'm looking for. There has got to be a method of chess visualization practice for beginners somewhere. For me, the slightest thing (inner crazy thoughts) can distract my focus away from my current line of thought which then makes me have to go back to the beginning and start over with the thought process. It's an inner chaos of sorts.

@seop1721 4 жыл бұрын

Hi. Any tips for making moved pawns disappear from their starting square? I find it difficult to wipe out or ignore the real pawn after I have moved it in my mind.

@floridaman6982 Жыл бұрын

Seems like this is when opening knowledge comes in handy… when there is the logic of why a pawn is moving

@lyingcat9022 4 жыл бұрын

I guess I should learn to find the coordinates faster first. Can’t visualize the position if I don’t even know what moves were played haha

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

That makes definitely sense 😉

@drexelclayton80 3 жыл бұрын

SAME I know chess notation but I don’t know the squares well enough off the top of my head lol

@9459 4 жыл бұрын

are there any other tips for visualization? or is it just practice? great work on the channel though!

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

If you do not have a special gift, then practice is probably the best thing you can do. If you follow the series, then you will explore different methods how you can train your visualization. Stay tuned!

@ETHANGELIST 3 жыл бұрын

But interesting that White actually missed mate in 3 after Qxf6. The move is Bxc6 straight away

@pushpamanand Жыл бұрын

Sir, I'm from 🇮🇳India, I didn't understand anything why we do visualization. How it helps.... And how it improve my playing chess skill

@yashprasad9274 10 ай бұрын

Nice it helps me Har Har Mahadev 🕉️

@alienfetuseater9046 4 жыл бұрын

so should you have someone read you out the moves or allow yourself to read the moves yourself?

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

We would say that best practice is when you hear the moves either by another person that is saying the moves or you hear the moves from an audio device. You could pre-record the moves and then do the exercise just by playing the audio. Hope we could give you some tips so that you can train visualization on a regular basis even by your own. Stay tuned!

@kinhuien9754 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this series. The inner eye is very blurry, almost non-existent. Will update on the progress for anyone who happens to see this comment and gets interested.

@thanlin2596 Жыл бұрын

how is it

@kinhuien9754 Жыл бұрын

hey, used to practise daily for about a couple of weeks. It got more easy to picture the board over time. It looks like the resolution got better and better spreading out from the center squares. But I got too lazy to continue, but if you do do this and never stop, you would be able to play with the board on and off freely, I can guarantee you that, my friend.

@mahirnaser4669 4 жыл бұрын

I want to improve my visualisation skills. Do you think imagining games like this in my head will improve it? And is there any other way to improve?

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

Imagining games as shown in the video will definitely improve your visualization abilities. If you continue to watch the following videos of the series on visualization, you will be faced with other exercises that help you to improve you visualization skills. Stay tuned!

@mahirnaser4669 4 жыл бұрын

@@Chessfactor thanks man

@jayvailoces7024 2 жыл бұрын

ChessFactor how do i train myself at home pls help chessfactor

@syedmuztabaali4799 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone else wondering why the bishop was sacrificed on f6?

@tompagano9015 4 ай бұрын

I have trouble following you as you combine algebraic and descriptive notation. Please, it is 1. e4, e5, not “ 1. Pawn to e4, Pawn to e5”. Little stuff like this throws me off.

@danielbeckenbauer599 4 жыл бұрын

SIMPLE TECH BUT VERY USEFULL!! THANKS FOR WELCOME ME =I WILL DO MY VERY BEST TO HELP /TEACH!!DANKE SCHON /DAS IST PANZER 2000 IN CHESS COM

@pphedup 3 жыл бұрын

DEFinately not patzer!!!

@williamzheng5332 4 жыл бұрын

I can only do 20 moves in head... Then blunder

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

Visualizing 20 moves in your head is a first achievement. Don`t worry that you cannot visualize more moves for now. This is normal but with regular training, you will definitely stepwise improve your visualization skills. Feel free to watch the next videos of the series, where we show several techniques on how to improve chess visualization.

@williamzheng5332 4 жыл бұрын

@@Chessfactor I've played for 7 years...

@emilytaylor9 4 жыл бұрын

I can only visualize 24.5 moves but with blunder. Any advice sir ?

@Chessfactor 4 жыл бұрын

What is your ELO? Visualizing 20 moves is quite good.

@williamzheng5332 4 жыл бұрын

@@Chessfactor 1650... I play more on pc than real life.