Thought and Choice in Chess |
Contents
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM | 1 |
B The object of this study | 13 |
333 | 21 |
METHOD AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN | 22 |
PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF THINKING | 33 |
Mastership | 60 |
the perception of a new position | 61 |
Specific traits of chess thinking | 62 |
The method of progressive deepening and the scrapping of a possibility | 266 |
The elaborative phases and their sequence | 274 |
B The methods of chess thinking | 280 |
Methods peculiar to specific parts of the thought process | 287 |
Trying out as a general method | 293 |
the arsenal of the chess master | 296 |
Knowledge and Experience | 305 |
Individual differences in the system of methods | 313 |
The character of game and player | 63 |
Factors of chess talent | 65 |
B Protocol statistics | 116 |
MAIN AND SUBPROBLEMS A The systematic analysis of the problem structure | 131 |
Problem and goalsetting | 140 |
The general problem structure of the process of chess thought | 142 |
B Typical subproblems in the thought process | 149 |
Goals and problem formulations in the main part in the investigation of possibilities | 157 |
Reinvestigation of specific possibilities | 169 |
The convergence to and the recapitulation of the argument final Phase | 174 |
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROBLEM 44 The solution process as development of the problem | 182 |
Problem formation during the first Phase | 189 |
The completion and enrichment of the total goal conception after the first Phase | 202 |
Structural transformations in the argumentation | 218 |
Transitional phases as phases of problem transformation | 227 |
Types and examples of problem development | 239 |
THE ORGANIZATION AND METHODOLOGY OF THE THOUGHT PROCESS A The sequence of phases | 254 |
The hierarchy of subsidiary methods | 262 |
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Extracurricular achievements of chessmasters 356 | 361 |
EPILOGUE 1963 | 371 |
On introspective techniques | 377 |
Ambiguity and multifunctional operations | 385 |
Remarks on chess playing programs | 396 |
THE GAMES FROM WHICH POSITIONS A B AND C WERE TAKEN | 407 |
COLLECTION OF PROTOCOLS | 409 |
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actual analysis appears argument associationism attack Bishop board goal calculations chess player chess problems chess thinking chessmaster choice combination complete considered convergence course decision direction dynamic elaborative phase estimated value evaluation example experience experimental fact favorable favorite final goal-setting grandmasters GROOT idea immediately important instance introspection intuitive isolated Pawn Knight less look main problem master Max Euwe maximal expectancy mental methodical doubt move possibilities negative objectively solvable occur operations operations-goal Otto Selz P₁ passed Pawn Pause Pawn pertinent moves pieces playing methods problem development problem formulations problem transformation progressive deepening proof protocol text qualitative Queen question re-investigation Reuben Fine Rook Salo Flohr schematic anticipation Section Selz Selz's situation solving method solving proposition specific structure subproblems theory thinking aloud thought process tion total goal conception transitional phases trying typical variations White Wilhelm Steinitz Z₁