The Psychology Of Chess Skill

Author : Dennis H. Holding
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000394658

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The Psychology of Chess Skill by Dennis H. Holding Pdf

Both chess play and psychological research offer rewards to their participants in the form of intellectual satisfaction. It seems to follow that combining these two forms of activity, by carrying out research into chess play, should be a particularly engaging enterprise. In the mid-1980s enough was now known for it to be feasible to tell a reasonably satisfying story by piecing together the accumulated results of experiments on chess. There were remaining gaps in knowledge, but the structure of chess skill had at least become sufficiently evident to exhibit where the gaps lay. Originally published in 1985, this book was an attempt to summarize the progress that had been made at the time, recounting some of the components of the research process while describing how the chessplayer seems to think, imagine, and decide.

Author : Dennis H. Holding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000394788

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The Psychology of Chess Skill by Dennis H. Holding Pdf

Both chess play and psychological research offer rewards to their participants in the form of intellectual satisfaction. It seems to follow that combining these two forms of activity, by carrying out research into chess play, should be a particularly engaging enterprise. In the mid-1980s enough was now known for it to be feasible to tell a reasonably satisfying story by piecing together the accumulated results of experiments on chess. There were remaining gaps in knowledge, but the structure of chess skill had at least become sufficiently evident to exhibit where the gaps lay. Originally published in 1985, this book was an attempt to summarize the progress that had been made at the time, recounting some of the components of the research process while describing how the chessplayer seems to think, imagine, and decide.

Author : Fernand Gobet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315441863

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The Psychology of Chess by Fernand Gobet Pdf

Do you need to be a genius to be good at chess? What does it take to become a Grandmaster? Can computer programmes beat human intuition in gameplay? The Psychology of Chess is an insightful overview of the roles of intelligence, expertise, and human intuition in playing this complex and ancient game. The book explores the idea of ‘practice makes perfect’, alongside accounts of why men perform better than women in international rankings, and why chess has become synonymous with extreme intelligence as well as madness. When artificial intelligence researchers are increasingly studying chess to develop machine learning, The Psychology of Chess shows us how much it has already taught us about the human mind.

Author : Pertti Saariluoma
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0415120799

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Chess Players' Thinking by Pertti Saariluoma Pdf

A comprehensive analysis of chess players' cognition which introduces and reanalyses a number of classic psychological concepts such as apperception and restructuring.

Author : William Roland Hartston,Peter Cathcart Wason
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 0871962268

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The Psychology of Chess by William Roland Hartston,Peter Cathcart Wason Pdf

Examines the psychological motivation of chess players and discusses the role of subjective and irrational considerations in influencing a chess player's decisions

Author : N. Krogius
Publisher : Rhm Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Games
ISBN : 0890580235

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Psychology in Chess by N. Krogius Pdf

Author : Fernand Gobet,Jean Retschitzki,Alex de Voogt
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135425135

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Moves in Mind by Fernand Gobet,Jean Retschitzki,Alex de Voogt Pdf

This book, which is the first systematic study of psychology and board games, covers topics such as perception, memory, problem solving and decision making, development, intelligence, emotions, motivation, education, and neuroscience.

Author : Werner Schweitzer
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056918590

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Mental Toughness in Chess by Werner Schweitzer Pdf

Your performance at the board does not only depend on your pure chess skills. Being a winner also requires a mindset that is able to cope with lots of stress and setbacks during hours of uninterrupted concentration. Just like technical chess skills, mental toughness can be trained. There are simple steps you can take that will help you to better realise your potential. Professional mental coach and chess player Werner Schweitzer has been working with chess teams and individual players for many years. In this book Schweitzer presents practical tips and tools that will help you to improve your mental power during a game. You will learn how to increase your concentration and stamina, recognize your own strengths and weaknesses, cope with losses as well as victories, increase your self-discipline when studying, handle disturbing thoughts and feelings during a game, boost your self-confidence, avoid underestimating (and overestimating!) your opponent, make better decisions while under pressure and other mental skills.These lessons and simple mental workouts will help players of all levels to unlock the full power of their brain and win more games.

Author : K. Anders Ericsson,Jacqui Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521406129

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Toward a General Theory of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson,Jacqui Smith Pdf

During the last twenty years our understanding of expertise has dramatically increased. Laboratory analysis of chess masters, experts in physics and medicine, musicians, athletics, writers, and performance artists have included careful examination of the cognitive processes mediating outstanding performance in very diverse areas of expertise. These analyses have shown that expert performance is primarily a reflection of acquired skill resulting from the accumulation of domain-specific knowledge and methods during many years of training practice. The importance of domain-specific knowledge has led researchers on expertise to focus on characteristics of expertise in specific domains. In Toward a General Theory of Expertise many of the world's foremost scientists review the state-of-the-art knowledge about expertise in different domains, with the goal of identifying characteristics of expert performance that are generalizable across many different areas of expertise. These essays provide a comprehensive summary of general methods for studying expertise and of current knowledge about expertise in chess, physics, medicine, sports and performance arts, music, writing, and decision making. Most important, the essays reveal the existence of many general characteristics of expertise.

Author : Jeremy Silman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1890085006

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How to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman Pdf

How to Reassess Your Chess is the popular step-by-step course that will create a marked improvement in anyone's game. In clear, direct language, Silman shows how to dissect a position, recognize its individual parts and ultimately find the move that conforms to the needs of that particular situation. By explaining the thought processes that go into a master's choice of move, the author presents a system of thought that makes advanced strategies seem clear, logical and at times even obvious. How the Reassess Your Chess offers invaluable knowledge and insight that cannot be found in any other book.

Author : Reuben Fine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030788363

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The Psychology of the Chess Player by Reuben Fine Pdf

Author : Robert R. Hoffman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317779544

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The Psychology of Expertise by Robert R. Hoffman Pdf

This volume investigates our ability to capture, and then apply, expertise. In recent years, expertise has come to be regarded as an increasingly valuable and surprisingly elusive resource. Experts, who were the sole active dispensers of certain kinds of knowledge in the days before AI, have themselves become the objects of empirical inquiry, in which their knowledge is elicited and studied -- by knowledge engineers, experimental psychologists, applied psychologists, or other experts -- involved in the development of expert systems. This book achieves a marriage between experimentalists, applied scientists, and theoreticians who deal with expertise. It envisions the benefits to society of an advanced technology for capturing and disseminating the knowledge and skills of the best corporate managers, the most seasoned pilots, and the most renowned medical diagnosticians. This book should be of interest to psychologists as well as to knowledge engineers who are "out in the trenches" developing expert systems, and anyone pondering the nature of expertise and the question of how it can be elicited and studied scientifically. The book's scope and the pivotal concepts that it elucidates and appraises, as well as the extensive categorized bibliographies it includes, make this volume a landmark in the field of expert systems and AI as well as the field of applied experimental psychology.

Author : Peter Wells,Barry Hymer
Publisher : Crown House Publishing Ltd
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781785835094

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Chess Improvement by Peter Wells,Barry Hymer Pdf

Written by Barry Hymer and Peter Wells, Chess Improvement: It's all in the mindset is an engaging and instructive guide that sets out how the application of growth mindset principles can accelerate chess improvement. With Tim Kett and insights from Michael Adams, David Howell, Harriet Hunt, Gawain Jones, Luke McShane, Matthew Sadler and Nigel Short. Foreword by Henrik Carlsen, father of world champion Magnus Carlsen. Twenty-first-century knowledge about skills development and expertise requires us to keep such mystical notions as fixed 'talent' in perspective, and to emphasise instead the dynamic and malleable nature of these concepts. Nowhere is this more apparent than in chess, where many gifted players fall prey to plausible but self-defeating beliefs and practices - and thereby fail to achieve the levels their 'natural' abilities predicted. Happily, however, the reverse can be true too; through learned dispositions such as grit, risk-taking, strategic thinking and a capacity for sheer hard work, players of apparently modest abilities can achieve impressive results. Blending theory, practice and the distinct but complementary skills of two authors - one an academic (and amateur chess player) and the other a highly regarded England Chess Olympiad coach (and grandmaster) - Chess Improvement is an invaluable resource for any aspirational chess player or coach/parent of a chess player. Barry and Peter draw on interviews conducted with members of England's medal-winning elite squad of players and provide a template for chess improvement rooted in the practical wisdom of experienced chess players and coaches. They also include practical illustrative descriptions from the games and chess careers of both developing and leading players, and pull together themes and suggestions in a way which encourages readers to create their own trajectories for chess improvement.

Author : Angel Blanch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781108659383

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Chess and Individual Differences by Angel Blanch Pdf

Research from the neurosciences and behavioural sciences highlights the importance of individual differences in explaining human behaviour. Individual differences in core psychological constructs, such as intelligence or personality, account for meaningful variations in a vast range of responses and behaviours. Aspects of chess have been increasingly used in the past to evaluate a myriad of psychological theories, and several of these studies consider individual differences to be key constructs in their respective fields. This book summarizes the research surrounding the psychology of chess from an individual- differences perspective. The findings accumulated from nearly forty years' worth of research about chess and individual differences are brought together to show what is known - and still unknown - about the psychology of chess, with an emphasis on how people differ from one another.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080554040

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The Psychology of Learning and Motivation by Anonim Pdf

The view of memory use as skilled performance embraces the interactive nature of memory and higher order cognition. In considering the contexts in which memory is used, this book helps to answer such questions as: If asked where I live, how do I decide on a street address or city name? What influences my selection in a criminal lineup besides actual memory of the perpetrator? Why do expert golfers better remember courses they've played than amateur golfers? Chapters in this volume discuss strategies people use in responding to memory queries- whether and how to access memory and how to translate retrieved products into responses. Coverage includes memory for ongoing events and memory for prospective events-how we remember to do future intended actions. Individual differences in memory skill is explored across people and situations, with special consideration given to the elderly population and how strategies at encoding and retrieval can offset what would otherwise be declining memory. An intergrative view of memory, metamemory, judgment and decision-making, and individual differences Relevant to both applied concerns and basic research Articles written by expert contributors