Expert and "novice" problem solving strategies in chess: Sixty years of citing de Groot (1946)

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 395-408

  Bilalić, Merim ^a,c   McLeod, Peter ^a   Gobet, Fernand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chess; Expertise; Experts vs novices; Problem solving; Scientific citation; Search; Thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 55249120446     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546780802265547     Document Type: Article

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