Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!m2c!umvlsi!dime!fawcett
From: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Another chess question
Message-ID: <29345@dime.cs.umass.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 91 13:32:29 GMT
References: <2041@seti.inria.fr> <1991Mar26.162003.7849@swift.cs.tcd.ie> <21622@shlump.nac.dec.com> <Apr.3.16.56.33.1991.27171@paul.rutgers.edu>
Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu
Reply-To: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lines: 13

Len Moskowitz writes:
>
> > And then there's the quotation, circulating recently in rec.chess
> > and attributed to the grandmaster Tartakower. When asked how many
> > moves ahead he looked, he replied "One; the best one."
>
>Considering that most perceptual organization occurs at a subconscious
>level, it would be surprising if chess masters were aware of even a
>fraction of the evaluation.

Which leads to the question: why should we care what chess players
say they're doing when they play chess?  Introspection is notoriously
faulty.