In chess, patterns are important. If you’re going to turn the game to your advantage, you’ve got to see something in an open position that your opponent doesn’t.

‘Pattern Recognition’ is the cognitive ability of our brain to recall data and information to make sense of the world around us. This same process helps us to learn a language and solve problems.

Whether it’s poker, chess or trading card games: “It’s all about pattern recognition.” Cecil Rosner Special to The Globe and Mail Published August 6, 2022 Updated August 8, 2022 ...

Chess also has a firm place in the language of football, but perhaps erroneously. When a match is likened to ‘a game of chess’, it’s normally a cypher for ‘this game is slow and boring’.

Published: 09 August 2001 Pattern of focal γ-bursts in chess players Ognjen Amidzic, Hartmut J. Riehle, Thorsten Fehr, Christian Wienbruch & Thomas Elbert Nature 412, 603 (2001) Cite this article ...