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I would say that it is not that chess helps in learning geometry, or geometry helps In learning chess. . . I would say that studying each separately they help in DEVELOPING your thinking, and if you are prone to chess, well, you will learn faster..
I am an senior engineer, love and like mathematics and I am a standard chess player and, note this, know quite a few people darn good in mathematics who do not understand anything about chess. . .
Keep on studying. .. that is all.
@ yoel14: As a high school math teacher, I recommend you look up the definition of "metacognition". You are demonstrating it in your initial post here. You are (at least somewhat) aware of your thinking process. This gives you a huge advantage in learning over anyone who has less awareness of his or her own thinking processes. Kudos to you on that.
And I agree with what tabor has posted here, for what it's worth.
I think as long as you are receptive to complexity and are able to clearly identify problems and then systematically approach solutions to those problems, you will find yourself competent in many endeavors.
hey guys :)
i want to share with you an experience i had with chess.today im at the 10th grade,and i am very good at geometry,and i think it's because i started to learn chess.i began studying during the ninth grade,before that on the seventh and eight grades mt geometry skills were not good,even bad i would say. ever since i learned chess,i feel like it organized my mined. i think that there's a connection between geomtry thinking and chess thinking.
what do you think?