SamT wrote:Lee Changho supposedly had "no talent" for the game, at least per the biographies I've read. He still excelled, first in the 90's by learning to be better at basic, simple moves that create predictable responses, letting him read 100 moves ahead in many cases.
I guess that is a misconception of what he did. Humans cannot analyse go 100-ply deep. No way.
As an aid to positional judgement, I would imagine it is possible for pros to project a long way (like from the middlegame into a countable part of the endgame) some representative sequences, where neither player obviously drops any points. These might be honte sequences, for example.
There can be a corresponding misconception: that deep reading is about understanding how the game will go. Clearly for some "one-way street" sequences it is just that. Otherwise, though, one doesn't play out killing attacks that fail, one doesn't start ko fights for which one doesn't have the threats, and so on. Very often deep reading is about what will not happen if both players find the good moves.
