How do professional chess players think ?

Of course there is a difference between a thinking of a professional chess player and a normal chess players. What is that thing which creates such a great difference?

PLEASE FREE TO ANSWER MY QUESTION.

for one, the professional chess player has much more knowledge ( of actual chess positions  and  tournament experiences )  to draw from.     A Grandmaster is familiar with literally tens of thousands of different type positions that will prove useful when competing.

Even if amateurs had access to those positions, the professional player gets to the heart of the position, knowing what elements to evaluate first  much quicker than the amateur  ( let alone the amateur may consider other elements of the position to be more critical than the pro ).

Strong players know when to calculate and when not to.

I’ve had this conversation with dozens of professional players ranging from a run of the mill 2400 IM on up to a 2800 GM.

There are numerous things. The calculation statement is just one piece.

 

What are the few things they said that struck you like a thunderbolt and that has stuck with you to this day?

Strong players know which endings are won and which are drawn. That way they only need to calculate to that point in order to know whether to play a certain move or not.

In any closed position the only plan is a pawn break.

One difference between strong players and amateurs is that amateurs often release the tension in a position too soon.

A funny one was “when you see a GM deep in thought in a simple position we’re probably just trying to figure out where we want to eat lunch.”

What It Takes to Become a Chess Master by Andrew Soltis

"... going from good at tactics to great at tactics ... doesn't translate into much greater strength. ... You need a relatively good memory to reach average strength. But a much better memory isn't going to make you a master. ... there's a powerful law of diminishing returns in chess calculation, ... Your rating may have been steadily rising when suddenly it stops. ... One explanation for the wall is that most players got to where they are by learning how to not lose. ... Mastering chess ... requires a new set of skills and traits. ... Many of these attributes are kinds of know-how, such as understanding when to change the pawn structure or what a positionally won game looks like and how to deal with it. Some are habits, like always looking for targets. Others are refined senses, like recognizing a critical middlegame moment or feeling when time is on your side and when it isn't. ..." - GM Andrew Soltis (2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093409/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review857.pdf

Brain, I guess.

Will I make money on this tournament?

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What do you mean??

 

Thanks Chris.  Probably guilty as charged, lol.

One thing GM Eric Hansen said on stream the other night has to do with what differentiates elite players from run of the mill 2500-2600 GM’s is the ability to study and analyze chess hour after hour without getting tired.

He’s right. Based on my (admittedly limited) experience in talking/hanging out with the elite the idea of spending 12-14 hours in a day looking at chess is no big deal.

Granted, they don’t do it every day (except maybe Kramnik, lol) but they can do it on command.

For fun, try to study in a deep, structured manner and see how far you get. For me, I can study intensely for 4-5 hours at times, but beyond that my brain is mush and I’m too tired to accomplish anything.

I wish if some GM would comment in this forum so that we could get to know their opinion...

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Yeah I agree your point.

One should utilize his/her time for studying and analyzing chess hour after hour without getting tired. I think it will make some development in one's chess skills and enhance his/her thinking to make good moves or to take good decisions. 

I think there should be match between Magnus Carlsen and Deep Blue...

Yes, that’s the definition. Not sure why you posted it though, lol