The visual span of chess players

Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium (ETRA)

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 165-171

  Blignaut, P J ^a   Beelders, T R ^a   So, C Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chess; Eye tracking; Visual span

Indexed keywords

CHESS BOARDS; EYE-TRACKING; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; RATING SYSTEM; TRACKER SYSTEM; VISUAL SCANNING; YOUNG CHILDREN;

EDUCATION;

EID: 77950327588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1344471.1344514     Document Type: Conference Paper

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