Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 06:21:17 05/09/05
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On May 09, 2005 at 09:12:53, Roger D Davis wrote: >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 If English were your first language then you could understand me without problem. Sorry, that I can't rephrase it because this is already my best version of the English.
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