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.
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.
Cellular automata (local majority rule, droplet rule, Game of Life, Turing pattern formation, excitable media, host-pathogen interaction, forest fire; Figure 3).
Cellular automata (local majority rule, droplet rule, Game of Life, Turing pattern formation, excitable media, host-pathogen interaction, forest fire; Figure 3) Figure 3 Screen shots of cellular automata in PyCX.
(a) Local majority rule, (b) droplet rule, (c) Game of Life, (d) Turing pattern formation, (e) excitable media, (f) host-pathogen interaction, (g) forest fire.
By then he was established as a rugby referee with an understanding of the game's patterns so acute that the New Zealand broadcaster Winston McCarthy remembered: "In one match in which six tries were scored I saw the six of them scored at Eric's feet as he waited for the player to ground the ball".
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.
