Eli5: how does a pro chess player see 10+moves ahead? What does that look like?
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My son is a competitive player. He ‘sees’ moves ahead, but much of it is memorized rotes of what the best move would be given particular situations. I will open with different moves and he will straight up say, “Dad, that’s the blah-blah opening,” and then proceed to out play me for the next 5-10 moves since there are ideal moves to make and he has them in his mind. When it goes into the fuzzy realm is when you get to a handful of pieces and then you are aiming for a move for those pieces to set you up where you can mate.
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