Chess wisdom.

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24th October 2008, 11:11pm
#1
by ncpharaoh
North Carolina United States
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 193

I would like to ask the community about chess wisdom; I haves discovered in my short time playing chess that there are few who have it, do you feel that it can be obtained by all or is a player born with it?

24th October 2008, 11:17pm
#2
by Popinjay
North Carolina United States
Member Since: Sep 2008
Member Points: 131

im not sure, but a good question though

24th October 2008, 11:17pm
#3
by Dr_Doc_MD
Imaginationland United States
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 1595

I'm going to use the little logic I've obtained over my long 17 years and pour it all out here. Consider any of those "chess-wise" people to which you refer; if they were never introduced to chess to begin with, they'd never become great chess players, and chances are they would not think of a game such as chess. Chess wisdom can only truly be obtained by playing the game, be it once or thousands of times. No one is born with what you'd call "chess wisdom", but it is possible that their brains develop in a way that allow them to think in a manner that a successful chess player would. A majority of one's thinking capability, including in chess, is determined by the environment in which one is raised, and scarcely by genetics.

25th October 2008, 10:02am
#4
by JCRchess
Connecticut United States
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 409

I feel that we all are born with some level of chess wisdom, however it increases only with experience.

25th October 2008, 10:11am
#5
by artfizz
South (GMT) +rT United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 3429
Dr_Doc_MD wrote:

I'm going to use the little logic I've obtained ..... A majority of one's thinking capability, including in chess, is determined by the environment in which one is raised, and scarcely by genetics.


I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that chess genius is more genetic than environmental. Though, if one great chess player mates another great chess player, they may raise an even greater chess player between them.

25th October 2008, 10:31am
#6
by artfizz
South (GMT) +rT United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 3429

Chess wisdom, however, is another matter. Here is all the chess wisdom you could ever need ...  http://www.chessville.com/instruction/instr_gen_collection_wisdom_intro.htm

Take particular note of the section entitled: Why Didn't Somebody Ever Tell Me These Things?

 

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