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From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Another chess question
Message-ID: <1991Apr02.231835.13544@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 2 Apr 91 23:18:35 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.162003.7849@swift.cs.tcd.ie>
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL
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In article <1991Mar26.162003.7849@swift.cs.tcd.ie> jeclarke@swift.cs.tcd.ie writes:
>
>	I remember reading somewhere (possibly years ago) that chess
>	Grandmasters did not gain their advantage over lesser players
>	by being able to look more moves ahead than them (I think they
>	used only look 3 or 4 moves ahead), but by the fact that they
>	could eliminate all the "useless" moves from any position, and
>	so have more time to concentrate on possibly useful moves.
>
>	I seem to remember that this process was so unconcious that when
>	these useless moves were pointed out to them they didn't reply
>	that they had seen them and realised that they were no good, but
>	that those moves had never even occured to them.
>
>	Does this ring a bell with anyone? If so, I'd really appreciate
>	the reference.
>
>	Thanks in advance.
>
>	John
	And bad players, (like myself) notice the useless moves and ignore
the good moves?  Interesting. . .

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