Chess players' thinking revisited

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 18-32

  Gobet, Fernand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chess; Chunking; Decision making; Pattern recognition; Search; Thinking; Verbal protocol

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032363232     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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