Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:19:23 11/15/99
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That's right. Chess is nearer to human brain because is more complex and so prone to conceptualization. With concepts human mind in his terrain. Concepts are kind of shortcuts and so with them you avoid the need to calculate everything, something for which human mind is not fitted, at least no in "normal" brains. In chess you can choose a move just because a concept created along time in the collective playing of he game trought centuries say it is the better move to do. Concepts can be learned and improved; specific calculations cannot. Even more; the complex goal of the game gives room to a margin of uncertainty about what is best after all. In checker you have not that. You miscalculated and you just lose. Is very black and white kind of game. Counting beans in its extreme. Chess is a like a coloidal system where what is best or second best change in a continous process, except in extreme cases, like to mate or to be mated in three moves or so. An gaian, to understand changeable systems is the terrain of human brain. We survive because of that. We smell chages in the parameters of situations. Not a matter of calculation, again. Like chess. Like life. Fernando
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