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I okay my knight too b5, face down.

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>>317857 (OP) 
Studies that analysed which areas of the brain are active in professional chess players during a match came to the conclusion that high level players don't actually think ahead, they've simply played so much that they memorised a very large number of layouts and the best responses to them, to the point that they pretty subconsciously recognise them. So chess might teach you how to think ahead as a new player, but the more you play it, the less it helps your cognitive development. In other words, a random 90s RTS needs more situational awareness that chess. Just remember this whenever you come across a chessfag who thinks he's hot shit.

>>317861
Wasn't there a chess champion who did something like this? He would make completely random moves,  sometimes sacrificing pieces to throw his opponent off.

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>>317861
>greatest chessmaster of all time was so great that he saw through the neurology of mastery before neurology was even a thing and beat chess as a concept
what a legend

>>317861
Reminds me of soul's players.

>>317861
What about Fischer Random?

>>317865
Pretty sure there was but someone eventually caught on and pretty much decided not to play until it gave him a advantage.