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| Harold Buck wrote:
quote:
> In article <1162322358.246753.74960@e64g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
> "Louis Blair" <lblai@blackburn.edu> wrote:
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> I think it would not provide a good simulation of people who "just know
> the rules," because even those people have some inherent understanding
> that a capture is better than a random pawn move. But it does have a
> certain appeal, since I guess it really does simulate someone who knows
> how the pieces move and NOTHING else.
In my view, this discussion about a hypothetical player
'who knows how the pieces move and NOTHING else'
seems too abstract.
I would submit that adult beginning players are *not*
equally endowed with chess talent, and these differences
in chess talent become evident even at the earliest stages
of chess development.
Let's suppose that one thousand adults of (at least)
average general intelligence are given beginning chess
instruction at the same time by the same teacher(s).
Let's suppose that these beginners have no previous
chess knowledge and are equally motivated to learn.
Let's suppose that the initial chess lecture consists
of nothing more than the minimum knowledge required
for one to enter an officially rated chess tournament
(every player must learn how to make legal moves
and how to record those moves).
After the initial lecture, the beginners are paired off
to play their first games in order to confirm that they
have indeed learned how to make legal moves.
I suspect that there probably *already* would be
some distinctions in the beginners' levels of skill.
I suspect that some players would act like they
were moving at random, but other players would
make their moves more purposefully. I suspect
that many, if not most, players would often leave
their pieces en prise, but some players already
would be able to avoid usually making those errors.
I suspect that, out of these thousand beginners,
an exceptional few players would immediately
emerge by showing greater tactical vision, and
that this would happen even though they had not
received any specific instruction on chess tactics.
quote:
>From what I have observed and experienced,
an exceptional few persons are able to learn
much more than they ever have been 'taught',
while many other persons seem unable to learn
what they have been 'taught' again and again.
--Nick
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