Re: remarkable female chess master
On 23 Jan 2013, at 15:28, Roger Clough wrote: Hi - This national geographic special shows a young hungarian lady who can essentially play and win five games of chess blindfolded. Instead of a blindfold, here she is playing only by voice to voice over a mobile phone. Her father, a psychologist, trained her to excel at chess. This would seem to argue for nurture versus nature, for chess is a position-sensitive game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wzs33wvr9E Also of interest is that the part of the right side of the brain that deals with spacial relations (not getting lost while hunting) is thicker in males. But the corpus calliostrum or tissue connecting the right and left sides of the brain is more substantial in females. Some uses this to explain why women are so chatty. But I am not sure that there are serious confirmation of this. But an efficacious corpus callosum might help an entity to ease the natural tension between the analytical intellect (Bp) and the intuitive soul (Bp p). Bruno -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en . http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
remarkable female chess master
Hi - This national geographic special shows a young hungarian lady who can essentially play and win five games of chess blindfolded. Instead of a blindfold, here she is playing only by voice to voice over a mobile phone. Her father, a psychologist, trained her to excel at chess. This would seem to argue for nurture versus nature, for chess is a position-sensitive game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wzs33wvr9E Also of interest is that the part of the right side of the brain that deals with spacial relations (not getting lost while hunting) is thicker in males. But the corpus calliostrum or tissue connecting the right and left sides of the brain is more substantial in females. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
Re: remarkable female chess master
Roger, Chess is not the best measure of raw mental ability, much of it has to do with training with people at the highest levels having to spend hours each day practicing and constantly learning to maintain their level of play. That particular Hungarian woman you mention was one of three sisters, who were all trained to play at the grandmaster level: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r So certainly, much of what it takes to be a good chess player can come from training, and the earlier such training starts, the more effective it is likely to be. It is also not uncommon for very good Chess players to be able to keep a board (or several) entirely in their mind. However, studies have shown this is more a memorization of common opening patterns. When shown boards with randomized layouts of pieces, both masters and regular people were equally bad at recalling them: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.mem.exp.html The same phenomenon with domain expertise was shown with waiters who memorize orders. When asked to memorize random words rather than menu items they fared no better than the average person at memorization. Interesting video, thanks. Jason On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi - This national geographic special shows a young hungarian lady who can essentially play and win five games of chess blindfolded. Instead of a blindfold, here she is playing only by voice to voice over a mobile phone. Her father, a psychologist, trained her to excel at chess. This would seem to argue for nurture versus nature, for chess is a position-sensitive game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wzs33wvr9E Also of interest is that the part of the right side of the brain that deals with spacial relations (not getting lost while hunting) is thicker in males. But the corpus calliostrum or tissue connecting the right and left sides of the brain is more substantial in females. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
