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Dan Heisman

Dan Heisman

Chess master

Oct 12, 2026

JohnHOST
30:01
And you lay certain type of ideal thought process, because that's my question to you, right? Is there an ideal thought process in chess? And are checklists useful for, especially for beginner players to apply while they are thinking, right? These are two basic questions.
30:18
Okay, well, we could talk the whole rest of the video on this one.
30:21
Two hours.
30:22
Okay, so first of all, we talked a little bit earlier about time management.
30:28
If there was only one thought process, you couldn't play different times because if there was only one thought process and it was the thought process used in a 90-30 game, when you played a two-minute game, your clock would fall as soon as you tried to apply that thought process.
30:43
So in that sense, there's a little box at the top of the thought process that says, what's the time management and which part of the process am I using? Because If you don't have that time aspect in it, you can't have one thought process because as soon as you started your checklist in a two-minute game, your whole two minutes would be used on your first non-book move.
31:04
So there's not.

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JohnHOST
52:00
to give them this level of feedback which is very difficult to get right as players like from angels don't tell you this basically it's also very hard to get this level of deep feedback in their toe process i think that's why it's like a clinic you know my channel is called the dr john's clinic i think you already have a clinic that you did a house 50 years you got all these people and you ask them to think out loud and you give them this feedback i think that's an eye-opener right for people people must be like oh my god what an eye-opening information to me that i learned about myself And that awareness, I think, is the first step for the cure, right? Did that

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