Working backward to solve problems - Maurice Ashley
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/working-backward-to-solve-problems-maurice-ashley Imagine where you want to be someday. Now, how did you get there? Retrograde analysis is a style...
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Translator: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar There's a myth that grandmasters can see ten, fifteen, twenty moves ahead. And it's a great myth because I'm a grandmaster and it makes me look like a super freaking genius. But the truth is, in just the first four moves, there are 318 billion ways you could play. Now, that would be cool if I could pull that off, but grandmasters just can't, it's too much. So we use different techniques to be able to look ahead. And some of these techniques include chunking, which means taking a group, a chess position, and seeing what possibilities can come from just that group; or pattern recognition, which is just going over a lot of positions that look very similarly and extrapolating truth...
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Translator: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar There's a myth that grandmasters can see ten, fifteen, twenty moves ahead. And it's a great myth because I'm a grandmaster and it makes me look like a super freaking genius. But the truth is, in just the first four moves, there are 318 billion ways you could play. Now, that would be cool if I could pull that off, but grandmasters just can't, it's too much. So we use different techniques to be able to look ahead. And some of these techniques include chunking, which means taking a group, a chess position, and seeing what possibilities can come from just that group; or pattern recognition, which is just going over a lot of positions that look very similarly and extrapolating truth...
