Board Vision or Diagram Vision?

If you use something like CT-ART 3.0 or a big book of tactic drills,
aren't you training your diagram vision rather than your board vision?
I guess if you always play on the web, that is okay. But I find it
rather dubious that skills earned at the diagram will transfer
directly to an actual board. I would think that different parts of the
brain were working.

Does anybody have experience with this? Like being very strong
tactically with diagrams but weaker with real boards or vice versa?

Are there ways to train your tactical board skills as opposed to
diagram skills? I guess you could setup all positions from some
tactics drill sequence OTB, but...

I guess the way to go is to learn how to play blind... But I bet it
isn't easy to learn.

/David

On 13 Feb 2007 13:23:40 -0800, "
wrote:

If you use something like CT-ART 3.0 or a big book of tactic drills,
aren't you training your diagram vision rather than your board vision?
I guess if you always play on the web, that is okay. But I find it
rather dubious that skills earned at the diagram will transfer
directly to an actual board. I would think that different parts of the
brain were working.

Does anybody have experience with this? Like being very strong
tactically with diagrams but weaker with real boards or vice versa?

I think that the skills do transfer. Most of what I read is from
diagrams. But I play a lot better with a board than with a computer
diagram. On the other hand, a teenager I played about two months ago
said that he was more used to playing on a computer screen than an
actual board and set.
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If you use something like CT-ART 3.0 or a big book of tactic drills,
aren't you training your diagram vision rather than your board vision?

I have noticed an increase in my board vision by doing tactical problems
using such things as CT-Art.

I guess if you always play on the web, that is okay. But I find it
rather dubious that skills earned at the diagram will transfer
directly to an actual board. I would think that different parts of the
brain were working.


Not that Ive noticed. using this 'theory', most people would be using
the 3d boards in chess programs.

Does anybody have experience with this? Like being very strong
tactically with diagrams but weaker with real boards or vice versa?

Ive noticed no difference

Are there ways to train your tactical board skills as opposed to
diagram skills? I guess you could setup all positions from some
tactics drill sequence OTB, but...

If that helps you then use it

In article .com,
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Does anybody have experience with this? Like being very strong
tactically with diagrams but weaker with real boards or vice versa?

None at all.

My experience seems to be that looking at pieces on a screen or on a
board makes very little difference.

-Ron