Retrograde Analysis : How to think

and work backwards to solve

problems.

…A beautiful way of chess thinking to apply in daily life

Presented by Srinjoy Roy, RKMVERI, M.Sc. Computer Science (1st year)
 Things we would cover today

2. How do great chess

1. What is retrograde
players use it in their
analysis in chess ?
games ?

3. How could it influence

4. Questions and
and inspire us ? (With
answers.
some examples.)
There are 318, 000, 000, 000
different ways to play in just the first
4 moves of chess…
There are several
techniques that the • Chunking
chess players use
There are several • Chunking
techniques that the • Pattern Recognition
chess players use
There are several • Chunking
techniques that the • Pattern Recognition
chess players use • Stepping-Stone Method
 • Chunking
There are several • Pattern Recognition
techniques that the • Stepping-Stone Method
chess players use • Retrograde Analysis
Retrograde Analysis : “To look ahead, it
pays to look backwards.” – Maurice
Ashley, chess GM
After reading this sentence,
you will realize that the
the brain doesn’t
recognize the
second “the”….
Bacteria that double every
24 hours fill a lake it has
infested after precisely 60
days. On what day was the
lake half full ?
 Law Medicine

Retrograde Science Politics

Analysis is used
quite extensively
in these fields Insurance Stock Market

Career Criminal
Planning Investigations
“Youth is often wasted on the young…”
- from the film The Curious Case
of Benjamin Button
THANKS TO YOU ALL…!!!