The Axiom System – Part 4: Justification in Chess

Principles, Justification and Evaluation — perhaps the most mistreated trio in all of chess. In the previous article, I suggested that in unknown positions, the decision making process consists of solely two processes — seeing and evaluating. In this article, my goal is to begin to explore the evaluation process in greater depth. However, unlike […]

The Axiom System – Part 3: How Do We Make Decisions

In the previous article, I explored the idea of starting from scratch to develop a framework for understanding practical chess, anchoring our approach in the most concrete and reliable element available – the actual experience of playing chess. In this article, we will build on that foundation to establish the initial axioms of our framework […]