In 1997, Jan van Reek [4] categorized Planning in chess to three main characteristics, Tactics, positional play, and Strategy, where positional play serves as guideline for planning of a strategy [5] :
Terms of Planning
Aim
Dominating abstraction
Tactics
Short
To gain material or to mate
Matter
Positional play
Medium
To improve the position
Space
Strategy
Long
To swing the balance
Time
Long-term planning by human chess players is usually made on the basis of reasoning, experience, and intuition, as investigated by De Groot in 1946 [6] .
^Adriaan de Groot (1946). Het denken van den Schaker, een experimenteel-psychologische studie. Ph.D. thesis, University of Amsterdam; N.V. Noord-Hollandse Uitgevers Maatschappij, Amsterdam. Translated with the help of George Baylor, with additions, (in 1965) as Thought and Choice in Chess. Mouton Publishers, The Hague. ISBN 90-279-7914-6
a Dutch chess analyst, chess writer, journalist, and composer of endgame studies. Jan van Reek is further researching on historic chess tournaments [1], for instance the Baden-Baden 1870 chess tournament with Adolf Anderssen, Wilhelm Steinitz, Gustav Neumann, Joseph Henry Blackburne, and Louis Paulsen among other great chess players from that time [2] , and elaborated on Strategy and Planning in chess.
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In 1997, Jan van Reek [4] categorized Planning in chess to three main characteristics, Tactics, positional play, and Strategy, where positional play serves as guideline for planning of a strategy [5] :Long-term planning by human chess players is usually made on the basis of reasoning, experience, and intuition, as investigated by De Groot in 1946 [6] .
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