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Are there any....ANY chess players out there amongst our video poker forum populace?

Since choosing to cease video poker activity in September, I have embraced my old enthusiasm for the Game of Kings.

Chess is great game, fun and interesting as well as great exercise for your mind.

Chess and intelligence

Although the link between performance in chess and general intelligence is often assumed, researchers have largely failed to confirm its existence.[132] For example, a 2006 study found no differences in fluid intelligence, as measured by Raven's Progressive Matrices, between strong adult chess players and regular people.[133] There is some evidence towards a correlation between performance in chess and intelligence among beginning players. However, performance in chess also relies substantially on one's experience playing the game, and the role of experience may overwhelm the role of intelligence. Chess experts are estimated to have in excess of 10,000 and possibly as many as 300,000 position patterns stored in their memory; long training is necessary to acquire that amount of data.[134]

A 2007 study of young chess players in the United Kingdom found that strong players tended to have above-average IQ scores, but, within that group, the correlation between chess skill and IQ was moderately negative, meaning that smarter children tended to achieve a lower level of chess skill. This result was explained by a negative correlation between intelligence and practice in the elite subsample, and by practice having a higher influence on chess skill.[134]

U boat commander TED torpedoes another da burglar thread.

Before you make another mountain out this mole hill, it was not necessary for a person to actually be a Nazi in order to command a U-boat in the kriegsmarine. Besides I am referring to WW I, long before Nazis existed.

Now I'll let you explain why you posted that useless piece of trash.

And gfy, I really am handicapped you pos.

I was merely providing the forum with some insight between chess and intelligence, courtesy of Wikipedia.

And btw: where did handicapped even come up in this thread? You playing the handicapped card again, huh?

Playing it every day if my life you jerk.

How does it feel to be a petty pusillanimous coward TED?

Word

I have played tournament chess (USCF) at a 1600+/- level the past 10 years following my retirement. The mental capacity of chess players is grossly overated. The highest level players, masters etc, are usually really smart and accomplished people. Most of the rest are just regular guys like us. Kids who play in adult sections seem to be more socially advanced, so it must help develop some of those skills.

Ah, more name calling.

DaBurglar do you really think that calling me a coward is going to incite me enough to meet you somewhere? With you knowing all along that this will not happen; who is the real coward now?

Mercy. Feel free to start another topic of this nature, but enough of this 2 party bickering.