Musicianship (was RE: I'm going to write an Anziowin/scanning interface for filePro...)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Rasmussen" <ras at anzio.com>

> Anyway, I think sight reading has a lot to do with pattern recognition. I 
remember years ago scientists (and programmers at IBM) studied how chess 
grand masters did it. They found that they weren't looking at individual 
chess pieces, they were looking at patterns on the board, and correlating 
those with other patterns.

Hobbyhorse.

Specifically, what they found was that grandmasters could reproduce
board layouts from memory... *but only if they were the result of actual
played games*; if they were random, their ability to do so dropped markedly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess mentions this, but carries
no citation, alas.

Cheers,
-- jra