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Ben Balas

My home for science writing about #visionscience, #chess, #drawing and anything else I'm excited about.

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Science of Chess: Let your Brilliance be your guide

Prelude: Be part of the Science of Chess!

Before I get to our featured bit of chess science, I want to tell you about an opportunity for you to help us learn more about chess and human cognition. Myself and Dr. Steve Emrich at Brock Uni...

a month ago
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Science of Chess: The AI Revolution Hasn't Made Chess Better (yet!)

It can be easy to think about chess improvement as something that only happens on a personal scale. If you’re reading this article, I imagine you’d love to be better at the game and you may spend some amount of time on opening courses, puzz...

2 months ago
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Science of Chess: Knowing when to think (and when to just move)

There are always moments during a top-level Classical tournament that I find striking. Sometimes it’s a brilliant move I know I’d never imagine making, other times it’s a blunder I know I absolutely could have made, and occasionally it’s a...

3 months ago
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Science of Chess: Seeing moves with momentum over the board

I’ve been into astronomy for about as long as I’ve been a chess player. To this day, I have a decent collection of telescopes that includes an 80mm refractor with wonderful optics, a 90mm Maksutov-Cassegraine telescope that is small enough...

5 months ago
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The 11th hour - or how I invented a card game that might even be fun

I try not to indulge in too many “Back in my day…” rants, but sometimes the temptation is irresistible. So, here goes:

When I was a kid, we had two computers in the house (which seemed like a lot at the time) and my Dad’s PC was the one I...

5 months ago
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    I'm a vision scientist, amateur artist, mediocre chess player, and aspiring writer of interesting things. Professor of Psychology at North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.

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