Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:16:22 08/11/01
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On August 11, 2001 at 11:26:31, Oliver Roese wrote:
>On August 09, 2001 at 12:06:45, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>
>>On August 09, 2001 at 05:25:37, Graham Laight wrote:
>>
>>>Here's the link:
>>>
>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1480000/1480365.stm
>>>
>>>Seems the brain magnetic resonance scanning confirms what we've all suspected -
>>>that GMs tend to use their memory, wheras weak players have to do it by
>>>calculation (the chess computer method).
>>>
>>>The number of patterns a GM is said to be familiar with seems to have
>>>mysteriously risen from 50,000 ("Chess Skill In Man And Machine") to 100,000 -
>>>any idea how that happened, anyone?
>>>
>>>-g
>>
>>It is not clear to me what a "pattern" is, as long as it is not clearly defined
>>the number of patterns can be any number you want.
>>José.
>
>Good point.
>Those patterns probably exists just as dreams of some (bad?) scientists.
>Nevertheless if there is something out there who knows how to identify and
>count these patterns, please tell us about them.
>
>Oliver
The "patterns" are not "dreams". Just read the book by De Groot. It gives some
good examples into this. It doesn't explain "how" humans match patterns, but it
definitely shows that they do.
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