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>Is that really what he found? >
The English title of de Groots book is: "Perception and memory in chess".
This was the main focus of his studies. There is another book "thought and
choice in chess", a translation of his thesis (plus some later results).
The following quote is from the foreword to "Perception and memory":
"Although a number of interesting findings on masters´ perception and
memory werde documented in that study***, the results served primarily as
evidence of Masters supererior playing strength - attributed to their
knowledge and experience rather than to their computational
superiority".
Note: The kursive letters are directly from the
original.
*** De Groots thesis from 1946: Het denken van de schaker.
(Directly translated: The thought-process of the chess-player, the English title
is the already mentioned "Thought and choice in chess").
Chrilly
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De Groots studies were primarly about perception and memory.
As far as I remember they were no better in
>*memorizing positions* than an amateur when it came to random positions. >They would still perform better when playing them. I also doubt professonals >on average don't read faster, both in Go and in Chess. I'm pretty sure they >do in Go. That doesn't mean they always read a lot though. > >Professionals definitely 'see more' in a Go position than an amateur does. >'See more' in the sense that they see more things that are relevant to >winning the game. > >> Chrilly >> >> P.S.: De Groots books are awfull to read. He is strongly influenced by >> German authors. There is in the German scientific literature a >> tradition to >> express everything as complicated as possible. The infamous >> "Schachtelsätze" >> (multi-clause-sentence). De Groot is a Dutch who writes in this >> special kind >> of German using English >> words. >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >computer-go mailing list >computer-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ |
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