HA! Classic. I wonder whether he even bothers to think ahead in games like that.

Related aside – there seem to be two distinct kinds of chess players (or maybe a spectrum between two extremes), those who meticulously think ahead to cover all possibilities, and those who play by instinct. I’m solidly in the instinct category, so I play quite good chess sprinkled with massively stupid mistakes. I wonder whether there’s a limit to how well you can play by instinct? Or whether you can effectively train your instincts to do any level of look-ahead without consciously doing every step?

Okay, now I’m really wandering off-topic. :)