Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!rex!ames!zodiac!meridian!marcel
From: marcel@meridian.ads.com (Marcel Schoppers)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Recognize this paper?
Keywords: features, chess
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Date: 10 Aug 89 22:59:09 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300
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Summary:


I'm looking for a paper whose author I've forgotten. The paper reported on
a psychology experiment that set out to determine the number of features
used by chess masters to recognize and/or classify random chess positions.
After a position had been set up (and not shown to the master), the master
got to ask yes/no questions until he thought he knew what the position was.
I think I remember that on average, it took about 70 questions to classify
a position. But I don't remember the author(s). Something in the back of my
head says it might have been Chase & Simon, or Nievergelt, or perhaps even
deGroot. (It is a fairly old paper by now). Does anyone know the paper I'm
looking for?

marcel@ads.com