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> The normal person is running behind or trying to 'just' learn the fast pre found and pre tested moves from a handfull of people who actually played/thought those moves through.

Quite the opposite, amateur players play a few moves from a standard opening, and then deviate hugely from the book variations and go into uncharted territory really fast.

And while pro's certainly spend an insane amount of time memorizing openings, chess is far more than rote memorization which you kinda seem to apply.

Are they able to reproduce it and rememeber those experiences?

Here's a video of Magnus Carlsen being shown various board positions from another player, and then recalling which games they are from and the moves taken. [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVvkz4MsKc

I don’t think this take is quite right. In the early/late game, sure it can end up being memorization. But the game has so many states that the mid game tends to be quite complex and there is a lot of skill (calculation/tactics ect.) which is really not memorization

There is way more than a human can hold in their head, so games are interesting and not predetermined even at expert level. Try watching a game with commentary, such as a world championship tournament, and you'll see the kinds of thought processes that experts go through.

> I thought about learning chess and what it actually involes when i watched the new netflix show.

>i came to the relisation that it actually involes becoming good in a very very big search space by having a lot of experience and being fast in calculating and remembering chess moves.

I wish I was this confident. Remembering chess moves, why didn't I think of that?