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Science of chess (cognitive) blog series.. parking lot

New blog:
lichess.org/@/ndpatzer/blog/science-of-chess-a-g-factor-for-chess-a-psychometric-scale-for-playing-ability/tTXWy9oV
lichess.org/forum/community-blog-discussions/ublog-tTXWy9oV

The first part is skillful parsimonious journey over what is omnipresent but not getting bogged into details.

Which I did on my own, but moved that tangent about rating, which I only care about because there are in my face everywhere, by now, and sharing other chess things might need such understanding, but so not my modelling interest, it is maximal bootstrap pull yourself measure, and my pet topic is about board aware (or more) measures, coverage of wilderness, for generalization skill consideration (which now is undefined, and not even explicit part of theories of learning, apparently), i.e. the game board information (or sport specifics) matter to me for interesting metrics about more than tournament or ranking objective. I care more about skill sets, and board characteristics in relation to each other, no matter how good or bad anyone might be at the total of them. .The mystery is in that pounding. the big chess is there for me. both for my own playing or staged playing understanding, and my understanding of own learning, and others learning as well, there it might not only be about chess.. but if not it is in both directions (other stuff lighting chess, and chess lighting other stuff).

GBT is keyword for the thread containing my difficulties of understanding (about what is ELO really). But GBT as I said above, is about not really looking at chess at all, at least not the board information. only the ternary outcome value. could be any sport.

psychometrics might be a keyword here.. (if I grep something). seeking public pdf links. or other things related, might be more recent papers heavily influenced (and also giving another angle, across research projects later).
References (draft for post in public discussion, might be larger here).

Recall of rapidly presented random chess positions is a function of skill.
Gobet, F., & Simon, H. A. (1996). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3, 159–163.
link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03212414 (pdf free)

Role of verbal knowledge in chess skill.
Pfau, H. D., & Murphy, M. D. (1988). American Journal of Psychology, 101, 73–86.

Skill in chess.
Simon, H. A., & Chase, W. G. (1973). American Psychologist, 61, 394–403.

A psychometric analysis of chess expertise.
van der Maas, H. L., & Wagenmakers, E. J. (2005). The American journal of psychology, 118(1), 29–60.
www.ejwagenmakers.com/2005/VanderMaasWagenmakersACTpaper.pdf (open access)
www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-psychometric-analysis-of-chess-expertise.-Maas-Wagenmakers/2641ab0d334c145cebffaa3d99c83f6f42190621

The memory recall paradigm: Straightening out the historical record.
Vicente, K. J., & de Groot, A. D. (1990). American Psychologist, 45, 285–287.
The relationship between cognitive ability and chess skill: A comprehensive meta-analysis
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289616301593
Publisher pdf not open access. but academic site is.
artscimedia.case.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/141/2016/12/22143817/Burgoyne-Sala-Gobet-Macnamara-Campitelli-Hambrick-2016.pdf
There is a correction, and the publisher does give access to its pdf. (notice how I am keeping notes on that).
> Corrigendum to “the relationship between cognitive ability and chess skill: A comprehensive meta-analysis” [Intelligence 59 (2016) 72–83]
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289618301831 (pdf from there).

Edit: however the publisher web page itself seems to have a lot of the artible content, the references and citations I think, as usual, but also some sections of the artible.
Amsterdam Chess Test (ACT) data |The R Project for Statistical Computing
search.r-project.org/CRAN/refmans/LNIRT/html/AmsterdamChess.html
temptation. (would need a bit more sense of what is out there though).

pipe dream. something of the scale of ELOMETER inert data. I thought there was an academic project behind it. I guess funding might be needed to make that open. It might not have been the common sense then.

But maybe ACT is it already. (reminder to do some progress on the blog damn it).
www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Are-experts-overconfident%3A-An-interdisciplinary-Sanchez-Dunning/2a7f71e9360bcfaf88b41e2f6fe529309e8cc11b
www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Metaknowledge-of-Experts-Versus-Nonexperts%3A-Do-Know-Han-Dunning/4bf19bf3b8cb0b90e05b0edf2b932fd9a2038b9e

www.semanticscholar.org/paper/R%3A-A-language-and-environment-for-statistical-Team/659408b243cec55de8d0a3bc51b81173007aa89b

www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Individual-differences-in-chess-expertise%3A-a-Grabner-Stern/e6baf0de5df87085485ff1408b3a067296c6b288

www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Surface-Based-Cortical-Measures-in-Multimodal-Brain-Trevisan-Jaillard/a46feac98f8072984e0acaf2b8fad8e39a080f1c
(brain stuff, share abstract, correlation with starting age...., nothing new).
paulogentil.com/pdf/Skill%20in%20chess.pdf
iiif.library.cmu.edu/file/Simon_box00066_fld05052_bdl0001_doc0001/Simon_box00066_fld05052_bdl0001_doc0001.pdf
www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Skill-in-Chess-Simon-Chase/f2ebce865dfc2519bd0992d4a4d0e0b3f8650d41
page-one.springer.com/pdf/preview/10.1007/978-1-4757-1968-0_18 (2 pages preview)
www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-role-of-attack-and-defense-semantics-in-skilled-Mcgregor-Howes/54f17a4c4632cd949bdc60614fdd007f759d265c
www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Role-of-verbal-knowledge-in-chess-skill.-Pfau-Murphy/15560725794ce921ec513cd0be176efb772df295

www.semanticscholar.org/paper/THE-MEMORY-RECALL-PARADIGM-STRAIGHTENING-OUT-THE-Vicente-Degroot/38302d7edc362d860c488fdb3b5bc5ee930a19df

some giant predecessors behind paywalls....

now I will have to rely on blog. well. not a problem. plenty to get lots into.. anyway. and since my objective is in line with blog author gist explaining, well. I might not need my own. anway I not sure i will ever get passed the abstracts. which are all available.

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