Left-handed GMs

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

Thanks.

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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.

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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

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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

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

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

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

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I'm ambidextrous and my IQ is amazing

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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?

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I'm ambivalent and my electrons are amazing.

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

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

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

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

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conejiux wrote:

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

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yes fraid so.

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

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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.

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If there is a serious study (ie published in a peer-reviewed newspaper) that establishes that left-handed people are more or less (include almost anything) than right-handed ones, I would like to see the reference.

And shepi, I also have a "psychology website" that claims that our destiny is chosen by the planets outside solar system.

 

(include almost anything) should not be replaced by "are more likely to do XXX with the left/right hand" of course.