Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 06:12:53 05/09/05
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On May 09, 2005 at 08:42:56, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On May 09, 2005 at 07:45:14, Roger D Davis wrote: > >>IN >>fact, a guy with a 500 IQ (were such a thing possible) could probably play chess >>like a guy with a 100 IQ...on his first game. I say this because intelligence, >>broadly conceived, is the capacity to acquire knowledge in any particular >>domain. Intelligence is concerned with rates. Accordingly, you could be the most >>intelligent person in the world, but with no experience, you'll lose. But you'll >>probably learn the game faster than anybody. >> >>Roger > > >That is wrong. If it were true then academics and doctors with high intelligence >would improve in chess over experience after some years. But this is easily >refutated. I know a lot of chessclubs and the genuine chess talent will always >play above the level of intelligent people without a special chess talent. So >you can find many doctors and professors playing in low teams while the chess >talents play in superior classes. > >I could still accept your general thesis. But we can't research it because most >intelligent people and academics don't play chess for years (anymore after their >youth). Perhaps the theory should go like this: > >- people with high intelligence and already great talent stop playing in their >younger age because they understand what all seperates them from highest chess >genius; they do also avoid to get lost in the more or less starving scene of >chess where they risk to become cases for social welfare. Other than in the >former SU states where chess was a highly supporte profession, you must get >attractive jobs to be able to make a living for your own family. Therefore a lot >of high talents simply stopped playing. They all would be better than the >average club players and they could prove your thesis. > >- people with high intelligence and chess talent but without great perspectives >in either chess or science will sty in the chess scene but they have no chance >to (ever) get really successful in chess [that is the sample I was refering to >above] Sorry Rolf, I couldn't understand your counterproposal. I know English is your 2nd language. Perhaps you could rephrase it? Roger
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