Author: Oliver Roese
Date: 02:33:10 08/13/01
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On August 11, 2001 at 22:16:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>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.
Thanks for your hint.
I assume this is, what you were talking about:
Adriaan D. de Groot
Thought and Choice in Chess
, Mouton, 1978.
Oliver
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