Oct 12, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 10 segments
Nick's substack 'Chess in Small Doses': https://nickvasquezmd.substack.com/ The Perpetual Chess Episode on 'Make it Stick': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpcgQpppDOQ…
So, can you tell us a bit about those exercises specifically? As far as I remember, you're seeing a chessboard position and then they are giving you certain moves, for example.
Black plays e3, then you'll see a move for white without you seeing...
So, they'll give you a position and they'll give you three or four moves and then go, what's the best move for black? Or they'll give you a set of coordinates where the pieces are without the board and ask you what's the best move for white or for one side or the other.
But it's just step again of this process of just kind of trying to visualize or trying to see.
And I know that sounds, well, it sounds weird to me that I had never done it before, but I'd never done it before.
trying to understand because you were solving tactical puzzles.
You were doing puzzle, right? You were doing normal puzzles, right? At the same time as you were doing that, right? There's something additional to normal puzzles that you solve.
If you go all the way back to when I first got into chess, as a kid, I was into chess, but I didn't really play it.
All I remember from the amateur mind was him saying, well, you know, most most amateurs keep playing the same game.
And I think that's what I was doing because I couldn't really see past like, well, I know I'm playing a Sicilian here or I do this there.
It was really frustrating, which then made me really want to do better when the pandemic came around.
Right.
That's super interesting.
So a couple of thoughts there, because we will be talking about pattern accumulation and chunks and so on later on.
So, can you tell us a bit about those exercises specifically? As far as I remember, you're seeing a chessboard position and then they are giving you certain moves, for example.
Black plays e3, then you'll see a move for white without you seeing...
So, they'll give you a position and they'll give you three or four moves and then go, what's the best move for black? Or they'll give you a set of coordinates where the pieces are without the board and ask you what's the best move for white or for one side or the other.
But it's just step again of this process of just kind of trying to visualize or trying to see.
And I know that sounds, well, it sounds weird to me that I had never done it before, but I'd never done it before.
trying to understand because you were solving tactical puzzles.
You were doing puzzle, right? You were doing normal puzzles, right? At the same time as you were doing that, right? There's something additional to normal puzzles that you solve.
If you go all the way back to when I first got into chess, as a kid, I was into chess, but I didn't really play it.
All I remember from the amateur mind was him saying, well, you know, most most amateurs keep playing the same game.
And I think that's what I was doing because I couldn't really see past like, well, I know I'm playing a Sicilian here or I do this there.
It was really frustrating, which then made me really want to do better when the pandemic came around.
Right.
That's super interesting.
So a couple of thoughts there, because we will be talking about pattern accumulation and chunks and so on later on.
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