[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Problem-solving]] - People: [[Maurice Ashley]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v34NqCbAA1c --- ## Summary - [[To look ahead, it pays to look backwards]]. - [[Understand the end game to plan for the early game]]. - [[Deconstruct your destination to create a path for your journey]]. - [[Shift your perspective to see the unexpected]]. - [[Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.]] ## Notes - In chess, just the first 4 moves can be played 318 billion different ways. - Proficient chess players use techniques like chunking, pattern recognition, and the "stepping stone" method. - [[Retrograde analysis]] - [[To look ahead, it pays to look backwards]]. - Grandmasters study endgame states. They then steer games towards these states, steering something complex (early games) into something simple (end games). - [[Youth is wasted on the young]]. - [[Shift your perspective to see the unexpected]]. The unexpected will be easier to see as you attempt to form new patterns. ### Chess quotes - [[Every chess master was once a beginner]]. - [[While artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists]]. - [[Avoid the crowd. Do you own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.]] - [[Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.]] - [[Nobody ever won a chess game by resigning]]. ## Original ![[Working backwards to solve problems-1.jpg]] ![[Working backwards to solve problems-2.jpg]]