Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 07:44:41 05/09/05
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On May 09, 2005 at 09:21:17, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >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. No harm done. No need to apologize. Roger
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