Thought and Choice in Chess

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Jul 24, 2014 - Psychology - 479 pages
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B Typical subproblems in the thought process
149
41 Goals and problem formulations in the main part in the investigation of possibilities
157
42 Reinvestigation of specific possibilities
169
43 The convergence to and the recapitulation of the argument final Phase
174
VI THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROBLEM
182
45 Problem formation during the first Phase
189
46 The completion and enrichment of the total goal conception after the first Phase
202
47 Structural transformations in the argumentation
218

Move W1 is the best
28
10 The significance of the schema for the thought process
30
II PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF THINKING
33
12 Relations are not reducible to images
37
13 Reproductions are not associative
40
14 Atomism is not heuristically fertile
43
75 Associative models fail for directed thought
44
16 The subject carries out operations
50
B The main features of the theory of Selz
52
18 General linkings and the schematic anticipation
55
19 The most general solving methods
61
20 Combination and linking of solving methods
70
21 Phase structure
74
III METHOD AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
77
23 Pros and cons of thinking aloud
80
24 Experimental versus real play situation
84
B Description of the experiments
87
26 Chess positions
88
27 Place and time
95
28 Instructions and experimental conditions
96
VI THE EXTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE THOUGHT PROCESS
99
A The external phase structure
100
31 The first Phase
102
32 Alternation of elaborative phases
103
33 Cumulative and subsidiary linking
109
34 Transitional phases
111
B Protocol statistics
116
36 Statistics of solving propositions
119
V MAIN AND SUBPROBLEMS
131
38 Problem and goalsetting
140
39 The general problem structure of the process of chess thought
142
48 Transitional phases as phases of problem transformation
227
49 Types and examples of problem development
239
VII THE ORGANIZATION AND METHODOLOGY OF THE THOUGHT PROCESS
254
51 The hierarchy of subsidiary methods
262
52 The method ofprogressive deepening and the scrapping of a possibility
266
53 The elaborative phases and their sequence
274
B The methods of chess thinking
280
55 Methods peculiar to specific parts of the thought process
287
56 Trying out as a general method
293
the arsenal of the chess master
296
Knowledge and Experience
305
59 Individual differences in the system of methods
313
VIII CHESS TALENT
316
the perception of a new position
321
62 Specific traits of chess thinking
335
63 The character of game and player
338
64 The development of chess talent
347
65 Factors of chess talent
356
66 Extracurricular achievements of chessmasters
361
XI EPILOGUE 1963
371
68 On introspective techniques
377
69 Ambiguity and multifunctional operations
385
70 Remarks on chess playing programs
396
THE GAMES FROM WHICH POSITIONS A B AND C WERE TAKEN
407
COLLECTION OF PROTOCOLS
409
BIBLIOGRAPHY
441
B Psychological literature
442
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
447
INDEX OF NAMES
460
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