6/28/2012 – Accenture plc, the largest management consulting company in the world, recently staged a conference in Madrid, Spain and invited World Champion Viswanathan Anand to speak. Anand dealt with subjects like pattern recognition, decision-making, computers and the strategies used in World Championship matches. The lecture is three quarters of an hour long, but well worth watching.
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On June 12th Accenture organized a conference entitled Return
on Analytics in Madrid, with more than 200 invited guests filling in the
auditorium. A highlight was the lecture by World Chess Champion Viswanathan
Anand, who spoke about "Analysis to anticipate the future and make the
best decisions". In it Anand dealt with subjects like pattern recognition,
decision making, the role of computers and the strategies used in World Championship
matches. The lecture was recorded in high quality and posted on YouTube. It
is 44 minutes long, but well worth watching.
The lecture begins with a lovely little anecdote, one that sets the tone: Chess
players easily remember ideas and patterns taken from millions of games. This
is normally a skill that is transferable, but with some training. I remember
once I was in Switzerland and my wife told me, 'I put some of your stuff in
the safe – the code is very easy to remember, it’s 2706, so you
can take whatever you need.' And I told her, 'Well, 2706 is not really a good
Elo rating. Normally it’s rounded off to the nearest 5 or 10'. So I told
her I couldn’t see how I could remember that. She looked a bit shocked
and then she explained to me that the 27th June is our anniversary.
So you can see that we’re very good in patterns in chess but we can be
challenged in other areas. How do we develop the skills to find patterns in
chess? The first thing is certain memory hooks. When you start playing chess
you get some chess books, to learn some strategies, because you want to beat
your opponent the very next day. They teach you a few mates, a few tricks. Then
you slowly progress, seeing the games of the great players, classic examples
that everyone must know. It's like mythology, like a story: the great player
explains his game, explains the key moments, often with some emotional context.
A lot of chess games are accompanied with diagrams of key positions where something
interesting happened. And thanks to all these hooks it is very easy to remember
these games years later. Many chess players have the experience that games they
learnt when they were very young they can remember effortlessly all their lives.
You take a position from any one of these games and show them randomly to a
chess player and he will tell you 'this was played by Lasker and Steinitz in
1896 in this town', because of these hooks that help us remember key patterns
and positions...
You can listen to the rest of the lecture – which, we remind you, is
very interesting if you are keen on improving your skills in general and your
chess memory in particular – in the video window above.
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