Where is logical thinking in the chess ?

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shadowsaybye

If anyone learning all of openings,middle-games,end-games. So when ppl will think urself? Its not thinking, just they calculate some moves others have already learned and u put em automatically like in a book.

 
Rubydave2

This is actually a good question, and it's a principal reason many low level players hit a wall. Many people think that to "get better" they need to just calculate more moves across the entire board. This is time consuming and not practical. What they really need to do is learn the principles of chess and apply them to the board. This includes weak squares, piece activity (a big one), prophylaxis, control of the center, developing with tempi, etc. etc. If we were to analyze one of your games, many of the moves you would have played would violate those principals. 

tl;dr Every time I make a move, I'm using logical reasoning based on chess principles (with some exceptions in the opening).

RomyGer

Hi, Shadow : English is not my mother language either, so I try to understand your post, by splitting it up in :

1.Supposing someone gained knowledge of and fixed it in his memory of all openings, middlegames and endgames...

2. Whenever people will think by themselves ?    You say : it is not thinking...  ( ? ) they calculate some moves...

3. Others have all knowledge and play automatically.

Well : 1. Is impossible.     2. Yes, people think and calculate !   3. Rare !

Finally : you use the word "logical" in your question, the answer is : carefully and reasonable thinking is always " in the chess " .

Please react when I don't understand your post !

RomyGer

For all concerned : I have written my post number 4 before I saw posts numbers 2 and 3, so, I will now study further...

waffllemaster

Every move where you have an option.

Rumo75

Unless there's a king to mate or a piece to win, calculation is worth nothing if you cannot evaluate the result of your calculations, using logic.

shadowsaybye

Romuger, Somewhere i heard this "we are professional chess players just copy style of playing sb who greater than us, we cant create smth new." And opposite soviet chess player said "forget all of ur already learned tactics cuz u shoulda always have risk and looking for way to rush ur opponent not like in a book but like how u want it urself". Key for create smth = risk+extraordinary+Hard work 24/7. I think for chess it will be good as well