Thought process: verbalizing or plain thought

A long time ago I used to internally verbalize my thoughts when reading, doing math and playing chess. Then when I started a speed-reading course, I was told verbalizing was slowing me down and I stopped verbalizing on these 3 activities with good results; it became second nature. Then stopped playing chess for many years and 3 months ago I returned to the game, but of course I’m rusty but getting better. I came across with the Van Groot exercises and Dan Heisman book “The improving chess thinker” and it’s all about writing down the verbalizing thought process, which I’m not used to, so I’m trying but it’s a real challenge. Does anyone has success in analyzing games without verbalizing?

Whenever I right down my strategy I generally do better. My first few moves usually look like this "Kings pawn" "Threaten E pawn And develop" but then again, daily and standard I do ok especially standard. I think it's because I set aside time to go through an hour of chess and it's over in one sitting versus daily where I have a tendency to try and remember what my strategy was, versus seeing what I should do.

fiveofswords: saying you automatically see like a hundred different positions a second is patently absurd.  Hope you don't actually believe this.

LOL!!

Usually chess players fry their brain in complicated positions.

Now they are going fry their tongue and sometimes losing some teeth while "verbalising" the chess thoughts.

Haha. But, 5 is clearly delusional.  Not even a top GM would make these claims.  Only computers analyze in the manner he describes - no human player does. 

Sure you can, it is called intuition as you might recall. Of course you can connect many dots very quickly which would include your previous experiences (long or short memory) and the continuing visual imagination process. On the other hand, you might interrupt by verbalizing and therefore slow down your visual imagination process which would be more important. Verbalizing is slower than visualizing at a game like chess because moves are obviously better if thought in images than words. Why languages were created in the first place? Communication.