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White to move and mate in two #390 -- Playing in blinkers [1]
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Date: 2023-08-10
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White to play. Mate in how many? Positions such as this were used in the experiments that led Saariluoma to his conclusions about inerference effects in chess thinking.
The Finnish psychologist Pertti Saariluoma has identified a remarkably common source of error in chess thought. In simple terms, it happens when you become so fixated on one move or variation that it produces an inhibiting effect on all other thoughts.
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The only solution — though difficult to put into practice — is to train yourself to look again at each move of a variation in a fresh and naive manner.
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