Game #27 -Train your 3rd eye

This game didn't have much algorithm usage. It was just a search tree guided by intuition. In this game, most of the positions that occurred in the middle game were positions that I reached during my search. This was mainly because my search was well guided in the middle game by intuition. But my intuition was not very good when it came to the endgame phase. So I missed some of Stockfish's ideas simply because my intuition wasn't strong enough to guide me into positions that would reveal these ideas. If I had seen these ideas before when studying (or if I had paid special attention when I saw them), I wouldn't have missed these ideas during the game. If I had seen these ideas, there's a very high chance I would have been able to hold this one. Nonetheless, this wasn't the worst game ever. I am quite happy that I could play against Stockfish's Ragozin on an equal level, at least until I made my first inaccuracy on move number 33.

The Game

Intuition guided search:
Correspondence game #27 analysis:

Lessons from this game:
> Study more games that reached the endgame phase (poor endgame play)
> Improve the variety of your search (missing ideas such as 36...g5 and 44...Ke4)
> Train your mind to see common patterns by studying endgame positions (26...c4 is a very common idea)

Intuition guided search

This is a very human approach to chess. As a human, you have a subconscious mind that recognizes patterns in day-to-day life. This pattern recognition can then be used to make quick decisions. After seeing a variety of different decisions you can make in this way and their consequential positions, you can then rank them according to your preference. This ranking part also requires intuition (according to this method). It's exactly the MCTS algorithm I used earlier in the series (which is not that different from what we do in our regular games, just a bit more specific), but presented in a more humanly applicable and simple way. Now onto the advertising part that you HAVE TO READ...

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