Author: Paul Clarke
Date: 11:19:06 05/25/05
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On May 25, 2005 at 09:41:28, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 25, 2005 at 09:10:36, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >>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. From http://www.tc.umn.edu/~athe0007/CognitiveBrainResearchChess.pdf it sounds to me like chess players use both halves too, but the left more than the right. >>Vas > >I think that both Chess and Go are based on logical thinking. > >If half of the brain is not responsible for logical thinking then I do not >understand how it can be used for go or for every thinking game. When I play go some of my moves are partly based on logical thinking. E.g. I might notice that one of my groups has a killable shape, calculate how many points my opponent will gain by killing the group, compare that to the points to be gained by other available moves, and finally play the move that's worth the most points (*). Other moves are based on pattern recognition, or because the move "looks good". Even when reading tactical sequences, the selection of moves to consider is mostly based on pattern recognition. (*) For any go players reading: I'm ignoring the condiserations of sente and gote here to keep things simple.
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