Jean Retschitzki

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|| [[image:JeanRetschitzki.jpg link="http://www.oware.org/single_pic.asp?pic=images/events/59_1092006115634.jpg"]] ||~   || **Jean Retschitzki**,
a Swiss [[Psychology|psychologist]] and Professor Emeritus from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Fribourg|University of Fribourg]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fribourg|Fribourg]]. His research interests include [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_psychology|cognitive psychology]], psychology of the child, and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_psychology|developmental psychology]].

Retschitzki researched expertise of [[Awari]] ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oware|Oware]], [[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awal%C3%A9|Awélé]]) players in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast|Ivory Coast]] in 1984, and organized Oware tournaments in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kpou%C3%A8bo|Kpouébo]]. He tried to identify the processes that differentiate expert from non-expert players focusing on the decision-making processes when choosing the best move in a given situation <ref>[[http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Jean_Retschitzki|Jean Retschitzki - Mancala World]]</ref> . ||
|| Jean Retschitzk <ref>[[http://www.oware.org/index.asp|Oware - Played all over the world]], [[http://www.oware.org/event_pics.asp?id=59|Event Pictures]]</ref> ||~   ||^   ||
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=See also=
* [[Awari]]
* [[Cognition]]
* [[Games#Mancala|Mancala Games]]
* [[Psychology]]

=Selected Publications= 
<ref>[[http://www.amazon.ca/s?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Jean%20Retschitzki&search-alias=books-ca|Amazon.ca: Jean Retschitzki: Books]]</ref>
* [[Jean Retschitzki]] (**1989**). //Evidence of Formal Thinking in Baoule Awele Players//. in Heterogenity in Cross-cultural Psychology. Swets Zeitlinger, Amsterdam
* [[Jean Retschitzki]] (**2000**). //Strategies of Expert Awele Players//. International Colloquium "Board Games in Academia III". Florence
* [[Jean Retschitzki]], [[Rosita Haddad-Zubel]] (eds.) (**2002**). //Step by step//. Proceedings of the 4th colloquium Board games in academia. Edition [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Fribourg|Universitaires Fribourg Suisse]]. [[http://www.amazon.com/Step-Rosita-Haddad-Zubel-Jean-Retschitzki/dp/B006NKDIKU|amazon.com]]
* [[Fernand Gobet]], [[Alex de Voogt]], [[Jean Retschitzki]] (**2004**). //[[http://www.psypress.com/moves-in-mind-9781841693361|Moves in Mind: The Psychology of Board Games]]//. ISBN 1-84169-336-7, [[http://www.amazon.ca/Moves-Mind-Psychology-Board-Games/dp/1841693367/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352628597&sr=1-4|amazon.com]]

=External Links= 
* [[http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Jean_Retschitzki|Jean Retschitzki - Mancala World]]
* [[http://ch.linkedin.com/pub/jean-retschitzki/9/a43/b48|Jean Retschitzki | LinkedIn]]
* [[http://www.oware.org/index.asp|Oware - Played all over the world]]

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