alt Hacker NewsI’m around 1800-1900 and they don’t consider more moves or positions than I do at all. It’s just that their analysis is correct and mine is not even close.
I actually don’t know this for sure, I should say that they don’t verbalise more moves than I think about. It’s plausible and perhaps even likely that they have a lot of moves or positions they do touch on but immediately discard so don’t even verbalise.
I'm fairly certain that GMs often consider many more moves than what they verbalise. If you look at Naroditsky's speedrun episodes, there are many moments where he verbalised a few of the opponents responses, and sometimes said opponent plays something else and he goes "I looked at that, but thought that wouldn't work" (or something along those lines). I've also seen these sorts of things in clips from Levy who is a "mere" IM.