The Creative Process In Chess and Everyday Life. A training podcast by Tudor Rickards
This podcast is offered as an overview for aspiring chess players. I hope it is of particular interest to students of chess of all ages, and perhaps to a wider group of people interested in creativity in everyday life.
I’ll summarise the key points in time- honoured style at the start and in the conclusions. Its main messages are based on those of a leading trainer, Mark Dvoretsky. His system encourages development of skills of finding candidate moves and selecting a preferred one each time you move. It also suggests ways in which the preferred candidate move can be discovered as quickly as possible.
So in summary, the thought processes which we are going to examine can be divided into two categories:
1. methods of searching for a move and calculating variations;
2. means of economising time and effort, that is say, rational thinking
