Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 10:04:24 05/09/05
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On May 09, 2005 at 10:44:41, Roger D Davis wrote: >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 It's just science which must suffer again. Same with Hsu, same with you. ;)
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