This book is based upon a directed study in psychology that I did back in 1988 as a part of my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology degree. I conducted some suveys and experiments at three different chess tournaments in the Tampa area and the results of these surveys and experiments are in this book along with my conclusions based upon this study.
I was looking to determine what the differences in thinking are between beginning chess players and intermediate chess players and between intermediate chess players and chess masters. Some of the results surprised me.
I used the outline that was required for psycholgy experiments at the time that this study was done and updated the tables and added some charts to make the data easier to understand. However, if you do not understand how to read chi square tables and you are unwilling to learn how to then you may want to skip over that part of this book.
In this third edition I corrected some spacing and formatting errors that were in the first two editions and have added links to recommended books. Any further updates to content will be in the next volume of this series.
Sales have been inconsistant. I have given away more than 400 copies of this book and so far only one person has posted a review on Amazon. Unpublished reviews have suggested improvements to this book and I have incorporated most of them. This book will appeal to those people who are interested in the psychology of chess players and also understand statistics.
Introduction
The present study assessed the awareness of tournament chess players mental processes, the processes used during serious play, and other tournament strategies. Thirty one male, rated tournament players were surveyed during 3 separate chess tournaments. Ten of these then participated in a board experiment.
The results indicate that overall, the stronger players are more accurate and thorough in their assessments of positions that are actually in front of them and in mentally tracking moves from that position.
However, when analyzing from an internal representation of a position ahead of this, without using sight of the board, the stronger players are only slightly more accurate than the intermediate level players who are clearly better than the novices. This is contrary to what was expected.
The 2 main differences between novices and intermediates are that the novices never or rarely attempt blindfold play while the intermediates seldom do and the novices usually don't plan ahead while the intermediates do.
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