Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 08:17:56 05/25/05
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On May 25, 2005 at 09:10:36, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >I think that which game you prefer is a sort of basic personality test, for >whether you like > >1) short-term or long-term thinking >2) clear-cut or open-ended problems >3) clear or vague feedback >4) to move from one micro-problem to another or to stick to one persistent theme > >etc .. This all makes a lot of sense. I am an awful go player and a worse than awful as a chess player, but to me go feels like a more artistic and less scientific game. This is partly because deep, exact calculations alone does not bring you as far as in chess, and partly because the bigger branching factor makes room for a bigger variety of unique and personal playing styles. Given a handful of games by a top go player and a top chess player, I think it would be much easier to guess the identity of the go player by observing the style of play. Perhaps this is all because I am even worse at chess than at go. It would be interesting to hear what stronger players of both games think about this. >Apparently it's been shown that chess players use only one half of their brains >during play (the half responsible for logical thinking), while go players use >both halves. Interesting, but somewhat surprising to me. Visualisation skills must be important in both games, and I thought visualisation skills were usually located in the opposite brain half of logical thinking. Tord
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