For chess players, this one goes to, 'thanks for the obvious insight' but maybe it's interesting to see it published. (Science Daily: Chess skill is linked to intelligence)
It's been a Rockhouse theory for ages that few things are more indicative of native intelligence than chess insofar as you can spend as much time as you like trying to learn all the openings, etc but you still won't win without the mind fire to drive it. Learning the openings won't help that much without the intuitive insight to know one opening may be more effective than another in response to your opponent's opening. That difference between rote learning and insight is what makes the difference in chess players.
Note: that's also the basis for quite a bit of the hammering of public education insofar as there's too much emphasis on rote learning and not enough encouragement of insight. We want to grow humans, not just walking dictionaries who recite things on demand.
Music is a favorite thing which requires a whole lot of intelligence but it doesn't have the same direct relationship to intelligence since learning and practice have so much bearing on the quality of the music the player finally makes. In chess, you can practice all you like and you may learn more moves but your play won't necessarily improve.
It's a remarkable game and it hasn't changed all that much in, oh, a few thousand years and likely it won't in a few thousand more. It can't be changed and still be chess and, even after all that time, still only the greatest Einsteins will win.
There's really no Keen Observation on chess since the objectives have never changed and the only purpose is to find a worthy opponent ... and then absolutely destroy the soul and the intellectual confidence of that individual. Chess seems so elegant, so pristine and noble, but at the root of it is reducing your opponent to quivering jelly of no value to Life, the Universe, or anything ever again.
The surest sign of intelligence with chess is when you stop playing it. If you have ever fallen in with a chess crew, you know the game never stops and nothing else matters but the chess. Sex is overrated in many ways but of one thing we're at least sure: it's better than chess. Stephen Hawking has been married more than once and you're telling me you can't find a woman, Chess Cowboy? There's intelligence for playing chess and intelligence for making yourself interesting to a woman and, amazingly enough, one has very little to do with the other.
Sometimes you may find a woman who is a formidable opponent and she's going to remove all of your body parts slowly and painfully because ... see above about the only objective in chess being soul destruction. It's bad enough when your aspirations are turned into thin-sliced turkey meat by a chess master but how does it come you are defeated by a lowly woman ... and you will be if you don't take her seriously.
Cat will give it a go but heed the fair warning that she knows how to play and she knows the objective (i.e. crush the soul of the opponent). We have not yet had our Battle of the Titans but that should be a most interesting match.
It's been a Rockhouse theory for ages that few things are more indicative of native intelligence than chess insofar as you can spend as much time as you like trying to learn all the openings, etc but you still won't win without the mind fire to drive it. Learning the openings won't help that much without the intuitive insight to know one opening may be more effective than another in response to your opponent's opening. That difference between rote learning and insight is what makes the difference in chess players.
Note: that's also the basis for quite a bit of the hammering of public education insofar as there's too much emphasis on rote learning and not enough encouragement of insight. We want to grow humans, not just walking dictionaries who recite things on demand.
Music is a favorite thing which requires a whole lot of intelligence but it doesn't have the same direct relationship to intelligence since learning and practice have so much bearing on the quality of the music the player finally makes. In chess, you can practice all you like and you may learn more moves but your play won't necessarily improve.
It's a remarkable game and it hasn't changed all that much in, oh, a few thousand years and likely it won't in a few thousand more. It can't be changed and still be chess and, even after all that time, still only the greatest Einsteins will win.
There's really no Keen Observation on chess since the objectives have never changed and the only purpose is to find a worthy opponent ... and then absolutely destroy the soul and the intellectual confidence of that individual. Chess seems so elegant, so pristine and noble, but at the root of it is reducing your opponent to quivering jelly of no value to Life, the Universe, or anything ever again.
The surest sign of intelligence with chess is when you stop playing it. If you have ever fallen in with a chess crew, you know the game never stops and nothing else matters but the chess. Sex is overrated in many ways but of one thing we're at least sure: it's better than chess. Stephen Hawking has been married more than once and you're telling me you can't find a woman, Chess Cowboy? There's intelligence for playing chess and intelligence for making yourself interesting to a woman and, amazingly enough, one has very little to do with the other.
Sometimes you may find a woman who is a formidable opponent and she's going to remove all of your body parts slowly and painfully because ... see above about the only objective in chess being soul destruction. It's bad enough when your aspirations are turned into thin-sliced turkey meat by a chess master but how does it come you are defeated by a lowly woman ... and you will be if you don't take her seriously.
Cat will give it a go but heed the fair warning that she knows how to play and she knows the objective (i.e. crush the soul of the opponent). We have not yet had our Battle of the Titans but that should be a most interesting match.
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