Prosopagnosia (which Keith Ammann taught me how to pronounce) is a fancy word for "face blindness." This is my third day at the U.S. Open, and it's embarrassing to me to speak to a new friend for ten minutes while desperately trying to remember who that person is. So when you come to Middleton, Wisconsin, this week to play in the Open (or just to visit), kindly reintroduce yourself as you shake my hand. It's not you, it's me, and I'll be grateful.
Amaurosis schacchistica is Dr. Tarrasch's tongue-in-cheek term for "chess blindness." Wikipedia's definition: "the failure of a chess player, during a chess game, to make a normally obvious good move or see a normally obvious danger." Well, that summarizes my Round 2. In the position below, I have a clearly winning position, and managed to lose.
My good-natured opponent apologetically showed me the move I missed, and a couple others.
But I'm having fun nonetheless. Immediately after drafting this blog entry, International Master John Watson (whose face I recognized!) sat down next to me in the hotel coffeeshop. We chatted about this position, Daniel Kahneman's Thinking: Fast and Slow, and ways of thinking about chess positions.
Edit: here's the game.
Amaurosis schacchistica is Dr. Tarrasch's tongue-in-cheek term for "chess blindness." Wikipedia's definition: "the failure of a chess player, during a chess game, to make a normally obvious good move or see a normally obvious danger." Well, that summarizes my Round 2. In the position below, I have a clearly winning position, and managed to lose.
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But I'm having fun nonetheless. Immediately after drafting this blog entry, International Master John Watson (whose face I recognized!) sat down next to me in the hotel coffeeshop. We chatted about this position, Daniel Kahneman's Thinking: Fast and Slow, and ways of thinking about chess positions.
Edit: here's the game.
