Cognitive psychologists discovered that grandmaster chess was more of a game of pattern recognition than calculation.
By Adam Gopnik In televised football, a game of pattern and predestination is made to look like a game of agency and individual initiative.
Poker is the complete opposite – a game of limited knowledge, bluffs, pattern recognition and psychology, where the mathematics and logic involved are there to be wilfully manipulated.
It strikes me that if Carroll's original Alice in Wonderland was based on a deck of cards, with its sequel patterned on a game of chess, Burton's film most clearly resembles a giant theme park.
For Korchnoi acknowledges that this game of set patterns, confined by 64 squares, contains within it so many different possibilities that it emboldens the instincts of liberation.
"As I became less motivated by my passion for the books, I got obsessed with the entrepreneurial side of it, the game of maximizing patterns and seeing how big my reach could get," he said.
He learned to listen to his opponents announcing their moves during a game and learn their patterns of play, enabling him to take control of the ball.
As I did with almost everything around me at the time, I turned their night-time noises into a game, listening to their patterns of snoring interweave, and laying bets with myself as to whose rhythm would break first.
Cellular automata (local majority rule, droplet rule, Game of Life, Turing pattern formation, excitable media, host-pathogen interaction, forest fire; Figure 3).
