Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 09:55:17 04/28/04
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On April 27, 2004 at 13:34:53, stuart taylor wrote: >You need conceptualization, as well as a crystal clear and healthy mind. The >latter, might apply to some children, but not the conceptualization. So let's >simply say that THAT can also be on the rare occasion. So then you have a GM at >12! What is also very needed according to this link : http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1447 is an exceptional memory : << Magnus' memory is said to be photographic. His coach did a little stunt for some journalists: on TV he showed the boy a diagram from a position in a chess book Magnus immediately replied which game it was, from which book, and roughly how it went. His father also has stories of five year old Magnus reciting the name, size and population of all the 430 counties in Norway. This ability is undoubtedly very useful when keeping up-to-date on modern opening theory. One might assume this has been vital when building up his amazing opening repertoire >> The last assumption is also well clarified by chunk and templates theory by Simon and Gobet in : Gobet F , HA Simon "Templates in Chess Memory : A Mechanism for Recalling Several Boards" in Cognitive Psychology 31 pages 1-40 1996 w.b.r. Otello
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