Understanding our understanding of strategic scenarioswhat role do chunks play?

Resumo

There is a crucial debate concerning the nature of chess chunks: One current possibility states that chunks are built by encoding particular combinations of pieces-on-squares (POSs), and that chunks are formed mostly by 'close' pieces (in a 'Euclidean' sense). A complementary hypothesis is that chunks are encoded by abstract, semantic information. This article extends recent experiments and shows that chess players are able to perceive strong similarity between very different positions if the pieces retain the same abstract roles in both of them. This casts doubt on the idea that POS information is the key information encoded in chess chunks, and this article proposes, instead, that the key encoding involves the abstract roles that pieces (and sets of pieces) play-a theoretical standpoint in line with the research program in semantics that places analogy at the core of cognition.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2007

Instituição

Wiley-Blackwell

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso restrito

DOI

10.1080/03640210701703725

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/23086

Palavras-chave

RepresentationMemoryDecision makingReasoningPattern recognitionPerceptionHuman experimentationPsicologiaMemóriaRaciocínio