Maybe, but a talent never used is as good as dead, so you have to have interest, else it won't matter (unless you're forced to play chess, I guess?).
Basic mental skills can be enhanced through work and effort, talent is the capacity for putting those skills to use.
Kasparov even famously said: "The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent." Going by that, my claim stands.
Maybe, but a talent never used is as good as dead, so you have to have interest, else it won't matter (unless you're forced to play chess, I guess?).
Basic mental skills can be enhanced through work and effort, talent is the capacity for putting those skills to use.
Kasparov even famously said: "The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent." Going by that, my claim stands.
I agree. Well said (even if it was Garry).
I’ve recovered from many losing streaks by playing the Smith-Morra Gambit.
They've often contributed to mine.
My selective memory edits those out.
Who was Morra anyway?
Apparently it's not easy to find info about him, but I dunno. This only has a few sentences about him.
https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-smith-morra-gambit-a-history
‘Pierre Morra of Nice (not to be confused with other equally well known, or little known, players of the same surname) wrote several articles and a booklet about the opening (c 1950) and gave it his name. Then W. Korn of MCO and J. Wallis of South Africa wrote articles on it. A. Hildebrand of Sweden wrote a booklet on it and Harry Evans of USA (not to be confused with Larry) filled half every issue of The Chess Correspondent from October 1964 to July 1965 with analysis of it. It has been played in important tourneys in the USSR and Fischer has played it without harm to himself against Korchnoi.
I feel that u needta strive to become a grandpatzer. Dr. Colby says a GP makes mistakes, but doesnt blunder. thats about U-2200 or so he defines.
and anyone who knows anything about psychology ?....knows him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Colby
here's one that fits this spool as u read about him....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srpwqf2MWAw
How do we define chess talent, though?
If we define it as a happy synergy of a passionate willingness to play chess and a number of innate mental skills (i. e. visualisation, spatial awareness, focus, intuition etc.) which can genetically vary in starting levels but which can (to a certain extent) be enhanced through proper exercise, then I've lost nearly all of my talent in the last year or two.