What makes great chess players so great? What's going on in their heads? Do they just have great memories? How far do they look ahead?

00:00 Introduction
00:24 The early experiments
1:46 A brain superpower
3:12 Depth of search
4:33 Human experts vs AI chess programs

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References:

My summarization of the memory results is really recounting this recent study:

Smith, E. T., Bartlett, J. C., Krawczyk, D. C., & Basak, C. (2021). Are the advantages of chess expertise on visuo-spatial working-memory capacity domain specific or domain general?. Memory & Cognition, 49(8), 1600-1616.[ Ссылка ]

But there's lots of other research along the same lines.

The earliest research was here:

de Groot, A. D. (1965). Thought and choice in chess. The Hague: Mouton Publishers.

Chase, W. G., & Simon, H. A. (1973). The mind's eye in chess. In Visual information processing (pp. 215-281). Academic Press. [ Ссылка ]


And here are some other solid articles I looked at:

Charness, N. (1992). The impact of chess research on cognitive science. Psychological research, 54(1), 4-9. [ Ссылка ]

Bilalić, M., McLeod, P., & Gobet, F. (2008). Expert and “novice” problem solving strategies in chess: Sixty years of citing de Groot (1946). Thinking & Reasoning, 14(4), 395-408. [ Ссылка ]

Connors, M. H., Burns, B. D., & Campitelli, G. (2011). Expertise in complex decision making: The role of search in chess 70 years after de Groot. Cognitive science, 35(8), 1567-1579. [ Ссылка ]

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