Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Has anyone read this book: 

ThinkingFast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman

Does cognitive biases affect chess? 

Avatar of icyfire77

haven't read the book.

Avatar of trysts

It confuses me! N-O....i-t...d-o-e-s....n-o-t....

Avatar of ajax333221

its impossible to think slower than you normally do, you can however spend more time in a single line or be more carfully with your conclutions, etc. But never slower, hence I think the title doesn't me sense to me.

Or I missed something?

edit: just noted for starters that this is not a chess-related book, but my argument still applies

Avatar of billyblatt

Jonathan Rowson's Seven Deadly Sins of Chess is supposed to have dealt with similiar topics. I haven't read it though, but it seems something about why we make chess mistakes. Anyone read that book? What are the deadly sins?

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The book has two sections:

1. "Part I TWO SYSTEMS" where he describes the basic model of how human thinking works in general. This is definitely worth reading for anybody.

2. Part II to Part V now applies this basic model to humans dealing with statistics. Also very interesting, but not as general and fundamental as section one.

So, what to do with the book: read Part I and apply it - instead of statistics - to chess. It helped me a lot to understand what's going on (in the head) and I'm sure so will help you.

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I read part 1. There were some interesting things and studies. It’s a huge book though and could be a little more synthetically written. But the ideas presented are indeed very applicable to chess, which is why I started reading it