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utero
utero
May 20, 2014
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Hello Everybody, first of all sorry for my bad english.

I'm doing a research for a school project about the relation between the chess and the different intelligences or cognitive skills, I'm also interested about the effects of chess on mental health.

An Hypothesis is: The constance practice of chess, at different levels, mainly helps in improving this game-science itself, with no effect to a greater extent, in other cognitive aspects.

I would like some sources from the web ( and opinions are welcome too) that help me prove this right or wrong, THANKS

utero
utero
May 20, 2014
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rdecredico escribió:
utero wrote:

 


I would like some sources from the web ( and opinions are welcome too) that help me prove this right or wrong, THANKS

Best would be for you to do the work yourself.   Use your google machine. 

Asd for your hypothesis: I agree.  The idea that chess helps in other areas of life is fairly silly. 

Thanks. I'm already using google, but since this a chess site, users may have read some important data that i could miss

Graywacke
Graywacke
May 20, 2014
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Google Scholar would get you into the peer-reviewed literature, which is where you want to be for a more rigorous project. It might be interesting to search for "chess and functional MRI" on Googe Scholar.

trysts
trysts
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May 20, 2014
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utero wrote:

 I'm also interested about the effects of chess on mental health.

 

I suggest that you read the forums, because it appears to have many people with mental health issues. But I don't know if chess is the cause or the effect?

JamesColeman
CM JamesColeman
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May 20, 2014
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As for your hypothesis: I agree.  The idea that chess helps in other areas of life in cognitive fashion is fairly silly .. if anything, it impairs cognitive ability and funnels one into a myopic way of looking at things from an us v them/combative perspective, always looking for 'lines of counter play' in real life.

I would agree that playing chess doesn't help make someone more intelligent, although they may develop more abstract benefits such as better concentration etc. To say that it actually impairs is a bit more of a stretch - I don't go down to the supermarket and "look for lines of counterplay" against the guy selling me a loaf of bread...

Having said that, it's reasonable to suggest that intensive study on chess could be more profitably spent doing something else...

RomyGer
RomyGer
May 21, 2014
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#6

José : there are a lot of forums here on chess.com dealing with intelligence, e.g. :

Is intelligence directly related towards skill in Chess ? 399 posts !

Chess and Inteligence ?  Really ? 14 posts

Chess is not about Intelligence.  45 posts

Chess, intelligence or dedication ? 106 posts

Chess-specific intelligence versus general intelligence. 191 posts

Chess and real intelligence.  37 posts

and a lot more about IQ, improvements,skill..

See "Off Topic"  and "General Chess discussions" ... Good Luck !

kleelof
kleelof
May 21, 2014
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#7

There is plenty of research out that that shows chess does not iincrease intelligence. But, it does improve orginizing and problem solving which can give the impression of increased intelligence.