Really fantastic project, also I must compliment how well you picked these positions! The first especially was a goldmine of different people's thoughts on a "bad" position.
My biggest takeaway was that people have different views on when they should finish calculating. Several lower rated players just saw dxc7 and hxg4 in the second puzzle and were happy, whereas higher rated players were only happy when they saw the best line with Qd1.
Thank you, Wilf! It was a bit evil to pick a slightly worse position, but I thought it would put people under the most pressure ~ giving the most interesting answers.
This was awesome! I think one of the main things to notice is that higher ratings do more concrete visualizations and take them a little deeper, whereas lower ratings just look at the present position and attempt to intuit a move
Great stuff!!! My favorite reply on the first puzzle was the 2055 who nearly played Kg7 and then avoided it just because he found it too committal to start with!
Really fantastic project, also I must compliment how well you picked these positions! The first especially was a goldmine of different people's thoughts on a "bad" position.
My biggest takeaway was that people have different views on when they should finish calculating. Several lower rated players just saw dxc7 and hxg4 in the second puzzle and were happy, whereas higher rated players were only happy when they saw the best line with Qd1.
Thank you, Wilf! It was a bit evil to pick a slightly worse position, but I thought it would put people under the most pressure ~ giving the most interesting answers.
This was awesome! I think one of the main things to notice is that higher ratings do more concrete visualizations and take them a little deeper, whereas lower ratings just look at the present position and attempt to intuit a move
Great stuff!!! My favorite reply on the first puzzle was the 2055 who nearly played Kg7 and then avoided it just because he found it too committal to start with!