Short-Term and
Working Memory
Experienced chess players have stored a large number of game situations in their memories, as well as
knowledge about how past games have unfolded. Research has shown that experienced chess players
are much better at remembering the arrangements of pieces on a chessboard than are inexperienced
chess players. This fi nding has implications for basic mechanisms of memory.
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