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AndyClifton
romaninsky wrote:
andy wrote:

My family must be a statistical anomaly then, because there are six people in my family with IQs in the range of 150 to 170, and all of them are right-handed. :)

 

Occupations: NASA engineer, US Navy engineer (civilian), IBM computer scientist, Architect, Ford car dealership parts manager/radio DJ, and Graphic artist/Windows software developer (me).

 

None of them play Chess except for me... and I am not particularly good at Chess myself :) but maybe if I actually study I'll be "OK".

 


 YOU ALSO NEED TO READ A BOOK ABOUT MODESTY PAL...


Actually he read several of them...in less than a minute!:

dblazer

So, does anybody KNOW if there are any left handed grandmasters, current or historical?

Thanks.

shepi13

Left handed people are usually more creative or artistic. Right handed people are usually more like problem solvers or chess players I believe. 

Quoting from a psychology website:

Additionally, people are said to prefer one type of thinking over the other. For example, a person who is "left-brained" is often said to be more logical, analytical and objective, while a person who is "right-brained" is said to be more intuitive, thoughtful and subjective.

Also, note that the left brain controls the right hand and the right brain controls the left hand.

I am right handed but I also move pieces with my left hand. Just feels more natural that way.

ITISMYMOVE

I have just started having to play left handed as have my right hand/arm in a plaster.Never though it would hurt to play chess(apart from those defeatsLaughing)Will be having to play slower so it will be interesting to see if my rating improves or worsens

AndyClifton
shepi13 wrote:

Left handed people are usually more creative or artistic. Right handed people are usually more like problem solvers or chess players I believe. 

 

lol

shepi13

Hey, I cited sources. You have any sources disproving the theory go ahead and show me.

shepi13

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_function

AndyClifton

Oh, you "cited sources." lol  How impressive.

heinzie

I'm ambidextrous and my IQ is amazing

heinzie

But I always get in trouble with people complaining that I should press the clock with the same hand with which I had moved the piece?! What's that all about?! Jealousy perhaps?

AndyClifton

I'm ambivalent and my electrons are amazing.

AndyClifton

They're just jealous, heinzie.  Slap em silly (with both hands).

conejiux

I move the pawns with my mind. To move the knights I always use the left foot

AndyClifton

Funny, that's how I play "Whiter Shade of Pale."

conejiux

Yeah, it's a game invented by Procol Harum...

heinzie
conejiux wrote:

I move the pawns with my mind. To move the knights I always use the left foot

netzach

yes fraid so.

conejiux
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conejiux

Wow! My uncle Joda playing the flying pawn game..

sirrichardburton

I am left handed also. The thing is that any trait (good or bad) that is unusual is more likely to show up in  a left handed person. This would include both genius and mental retardation. I remember that Leonardo De Vinchi is left handed but on the other hand so was Jack the Ripper. When Bill Clinton ran against George W. Bush and Ross Perot, all 3 of them were left handed. The percentage of left handed people worldwide is roughly 10% although some left handed people were forced to switch to right handed when they were young (not a good idea).There are also those who are ambidexterous. Throughout the ages in many societies there has been a dark view of left handed people.( In Rocky 1 the trainer complains that all left handed boxers should had been drowned at birth). Like most left handers I am glad that i am in this group.