marcel@meridian.ads.com (Marcel Schoppers) (08/11/89)
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
dg1v+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Greene) (08/11/89)
try: the original... deGroot, A. D. (1965) Thought and Choice in Chess" - The Hauge: Mouton more accessible... Chase, W.G. and Simon, H.A. (1973) "Perception in Chess" - Cognitive Psychology 4, p. 55-81 -David