When world chess champion Anand won arguably his best and most creative game, with black, against Aronian, he said in an interview afterward “yeah it’s no big deal the position was the same as in [slightly famous game from 100 years ago]”.
Of course the similarity is only visible for genius chess players.
So maybe pattern matching and novel thinking are, in fact, the same thing.
When world chess champion Anand won arguably his best and most creative game, with black, against Aronian, he said in an interview afterward “yeah it’s no big deal the position was the same as in [slightly famous game from 100 years ago]”.
Of course the similarity is only visible for genius chess players.
So maybe pattern matching and novel thinking are, in fact, the same thing.