What a useful process! I think we often assume that telling/reading about historical thinking and possible classroom strategies is sufficient. It takes expertise, practice, and reflection!

You may.

Is there a link I can follow up on without scanning a QR code and continuing with my phone?

The 2025-2026 Social Studies cohort is fortunate to have you!

Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts (Wineburg), Why Won't You Just Tell us the Answer? (Lesh), New Possibilities for the Past (Clark), Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History (Stearns, Seixas, Wineburg).

But for me the episode revealed that what allows grandmasters to play with such tactical acumen is not only skills, and practice, but as you note, knowledge. How have historians approached similar problems in the past, how does their produced work help me better understand my current inquiry?

When games do finally go out of book, it's a real dramatic moment, wonderfully illustrated in the podcast episode.

Both players have already consulted the database, and have so much of "The Book" memorized that whole portions of the game are played in a noticeably rote manner, not dissimilar to the way a child who has played too much tic-tac-toe. Sometimes, whole games are played “within The Book”.

For years afterwards he is booed booed by chess fans at major tournaments. For now, when two players face off in a major tournament, a certain phenomenon occurs:

Hi @lightningjay.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social has a particularly memorable episode in which they describe how Frederic Friedel convinced the Russian Chess Federation in the 1980s to upload their database of games played onto an online database. www.radiolab.org/podcast/1538...