Recall of rapidly presented random chess positions is a function of skill
- 1 June 1996
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Vol. 3 (2) , 159-163
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03212414
Abstract
A widely cited result asserts that experts' superiority over novices in recalling meaningful material from their domain of expertise vanishes when they are confronted with random material. A review of recent chess experiments in which random positions served as control material (presentation time between 3 and 10 sec) shows, however, that strong players generally maintain some superiority over weak players even with random positions, although the relative difference between skill levels is much smaller than with game positions. The implications of this finding for expertise in chess are discussed and the question of the recall of random material in other domains is raised.Keywords
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