The role of deliberate practice in chess expertise

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-165

  Charness, Neil ^a   Tuffiash, Michael ^a   Krampe, Ralf ^b   Reingold, Eyal ^c   Vasyukova, Ekaterina ^d  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PEDAGOGICS; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; SPORT; TEACHING; TIME MANAGEMENT; TRAINING;

EID: 15444376298     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1106     Document Type: Article

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