Do they have extraordinarily high IQs, superior spatial reasoning compared to the average, or better short-term memories? It turns out that chess masters are not particularly exceptional on any of these measures as a whole.
Chess experts don't have better memory in general, but they have better memory specifically for chess positions that could occur in a real game.
Magnus Carlsen(Chess World Champion) recognizes chess positions the same way we recognize faces. And recognition leads directly to intuition.
13
68 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
We often think only practice is required to be an expert but that's not enough to become a true expert and reach at top!
“
The idea is part of this collection:
Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection
How to build trust and respect with team members
How to communicate effectively
How to motivate and inspire others
Related collections
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates