Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 10:41:50 12/23/01
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On December 23, 2001 at 11:19:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >That's _not_ what I meant. IQ has a lot to do with pattern matching and >visualization skills (those that have taken tests to measure IQ will >remember this). It also has to do with reasoning skills as well, of >course. But I have known good chess players that were not high-IQ, and I have >known high-IQ people that were not good chess players. > Psychologists have suggested that playing successful chess may be the product of an innate predisposition for spatial forms allied with an exceptional memory. How else can one explain the phenomena that some people can play simultaneous games blindfolded? w.b.r. Otello.
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