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What are some of the qualities that make an organism a superior chess player
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Actually just as I am concluding my essay another aspect comes to mind. Intelligence. This is the toughest one to define for psychologists or anyone else. There is a bit of smartness in chess. Whenever we read chess books or try to solve tactical puzzles we are asked the question what makes up the position. Our reply may go as follows. Well the rook is attacked but I am close to the king in this area of the baord and 3 of my pieces can actively attack it. I must sacrifice the rook and attack the king. Or we may say .. well, I have a strong passed pawn supported by my rook on the seventh rank. I must treat this pawn as a piece and be prepared to sacrifice other material to ensure this one gets promoted. Sometimes the story we tell ourselves is true other times it is wrong becuase some other important feature of the position has been ignored. This constitutes intelligence in chess.
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I'm trying to figure out the qualities that make a person/or any other organism a superior chess player.
First of all, it's got to be 'digit span'. This refers to the number of objects a person is capable of holding in their head and manipulating. This is measured by such tasks as the subject being exposed to a number with n digits on the screen and have them repeat it without seeing it any more(recall from memory) and repeat the number backwards(n-back). If a person can do it with 7 digits then his digit span is 7. In chess we have 32 pieces. We move these pieces around in our head to calculate what we want to achieve for purposes of both calculation as well as long term planning. On top of that , we have the concept of chunking. I'll give an example. let's imagine the castled position. We do not have to remember the position of each piece. It's already constructed in our minds. So we don't have to allocate individual memory cells to each piece. Or lets say we see the starting position. We are well familiar with it and do not need to recall the position of each piece. How does this relate with n-back. Well let's say the number we are exposed to is 1111111111 or 1234567890 then we commit zero of our n digits to remembering it and simply remember that it is merely the number 1 repeated 10 times or 1 to 0 in sequence. This is chunking. The more patterns we expose ourselves the better our recognition becomes. So this brings us to our second quality. Memory. The person with the superior memory, someone who is able to remember moves, games, positions in their brain will go much farther in his chess learning and career. Memory is actually a tough nut for psychologists. We haev been unable to isolate the brain area where memories lie. We just don't know yet stimulation of this or that area of the brain with an electric material or electric probe will stimulate this or that memory. It's all a mess inside. Thirdly, the third quality is exposure. A young student who has been exposed to numerous chess positions will develop an internal language for the pieces and their behavior and what is a good move will come naturally to him the way the right words come naturally to a writer or a poet.
This concludes my analysis of what makes an organism good at chess.
There are other things too I imagine and I will revert back with my thoughts on it as I discover more.