Yes, you have to let your hand move the pieces, not your mind!
Heh, it's really been said this way before :p
I'll listen to this as I play sometimes... but it makes me move pretty slow...
Zen, chess and the void
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After many games of losing in blitz I asked a zen master "why am I losing?"
He clapped his hands together 3 times, silently, and walked away refusing to speak.
The next day I asked him again the same question. He did the same thing again.
Over the next weeks in deep meditation, fasting and hanging upside down like a bat, I found the answer:
nothingness. The void. I am losing at blitz because I need to have periods in the game when I don't think of anything. When I think of nothing, I am thinking of something. It's like that scene [Caddyshack?] where the golfer says "the zen master says that without holes a flute wouldn't be a flute".
I need my periods of nothing and the void. So I cannot blitz since it is full of continual somethings.
Do you need the void? Are you a Zen chess player?