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Nate, your columns are just Brilliant! Nuggets of Gold in each of them, reminding one of Dan Heisman's Novice Nook! Keep up the Fab work, if not for anyone else but surely for the lesser mortals who are perennially time poor...

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Thanks!

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Made me think about this post I wrote a while back with the fighterpilot in mind: https://saychess.substack.com/p/can-you-think-like-a-fighter-pilot

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Solon for the win. Again.

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Another brilliant column.

Really brilliant.

And helpful.

Thank you

Bob

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Thanks Bob!

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Great

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Thanks for another interesting read. What do you think determines whether positions/patterns are internalised or not? Blitz may be sufficient for young players with a lot of plasticity but doesn’t seem too effective for adults. And presumably good/appropriate moves have to be internalised in tandem with positions in order to positively affect playing strength.

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So one needs to play thousands of blitz games to see and internalize a large number of positions?

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Not necessarily, but you will probably have to process a large number of positions one way or another.

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