Eli5: how does a pro chess player see 10+moves ahead? What does that look like?

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Eli5: how does a pro chess player see 10+moves ahead? What does that look like?

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Basically you’re predicting how your opponent will respond to your moves. You’ll think, “If I play A, he’ll play B, then I’ll do C, and he’ll do D, and I’ll play E . . . ” To do this well you have to be good at predicting how your opponent will respond to your plays. Sometimes the response is obvious because there is only one good thing for your opponent to do, but other times it’s not so obvious, and if your opponent makes a play you didn’t predict, you have to reorganize yourself and come up with a new approach.