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From: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.games.chess
Subject: Re: The Secret of being a Chess Master
Message-ID: <737@ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 10:24:04 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 11 10:24:04 1986
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References: <269@ihlpf.UUCP> <102100005@haddock.UUCP> <192@isieng.UUCP>
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In article <192@isieng.UUCP> wendyt@isieng.UUCP (Wendy Thrash) writes:
>>> <bill@milford> writes:
>>> ...some psychological studies which indicated some
>>> unlearned traits which good masters possess but are relatively lacking
>>> in the rest of us...
>
>> Andrew Tannenbaum replies:
>> This seems misguided.  If the test positions were sensible chess
>> positions, then a master would see them the way you would see
>> sentences....
>
>Andrew is quite correct, but the studies were well-done. On positions arising
>from actual (or, at least, possible) games, masters were far superior.  Random
>arrangements were also tested -- masters were no better than woodpushers.

Does anyone have pointers to the original reports?

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