I am not saying memory can't be improved somehow. I don't know that since I don't know what factors are a part of good memory. Could be concentration and nervous agitation levels mixed with desire to learn. But I doubt chess on its own improves memory. If it does, maybe it does it for the position memorization. I don't think there are any valid statistically significant test results that show chess improves general memory.
Chess Improves Memory?
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Mar 9, 2016
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I've seen different claims about chess "improving" the mind, training memory, making kids smarter and the so called evidence in each one of them was always either misleading, anecdotal, or some pure pseudoscience.
I am not saying memory can't be improved somehow. I don't know that since I don't know what factors are a part of good memory. Could be concentration and nervous agitation levels mixed with desire to learn. But I doubt chess on its own improves memory. If it does, maybe it does it for the position memorization. I don't think there are any valid statistically significant test results that show chess improves general memory.
I am not saying memory can't be improved somehow. I don't know that since I don't know what factors are a part of good memory. Could be concentration and nervous agitation levels mixed with desire to learn. But I doubt chess on its own improves memory. If it does, maybe it does it for the position memorization. I don't think there are any valid statistically significant test results that show chess improves general memory.
I like to agree. While playing in chess.com, I forgot to do something 😊 A beautiful game like chess makes you forget lots of things to do.
AdamovYuri wrote:
no its vice versa. chess destroys your memory.
Playing chess for the sake of fun only is bad for memory. If you play chess seriously, study books, analyze games, solve puzzles, etc., I believe it does help improves memory. Fun loving people have inferior memory compare to sober people.
You dont need to remember which grocery product is of best value. Just look at the label and price tag. Karaoke lovers have better memory than dance lovers 😊
Mar 9, 2016
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Chess improves your memory of chess, I believe. I saw a study in a book once (can't remember that exact book or study) which said that high-level players can recreate entire boards from old games after seeing the board for only a few seconds. However, if the board shows an illegal position, those same players can no longer recreate the board.
To anyone. If you played a game that ends in 30 moves, can u remember all 30 moves?
I cant. My chess memory is not that good. My memory is programmed for mathematics where I can rememeber 100s of formulas, equations, constants and unit conversion factors.
Mar 14, 2016
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Mandy711 a écrit :
To anyone. If you played a game that ends in 30 moves, can u remember all 30 moves?
no;
to nd to play chess will play at a level 1500+, memory is required BEFORE getting this level.
And to play chess will MAINTAIN it, as any activity (reading, sport, working, etc ...).
Before 1500 (95% of people) no need of meeory to play lousy.
I wonder if any study has ben done to know if chss helps to get/maintian memory, or if players anyway had good memory before, and how it can help in improving it. ty.
Mar 14, 2016
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+1 I almost never used memory in fourty years i'm <1500.
Just fun. idem in tennis, ski, it' is sometimes surprising to meet twice same situations and to cope with agin, with different solutions, ways... To know the 25 first moves on berlin wall to draw in tornaments is for me just HORRIBLE, the good way to let chess disgusting lotta people;
960 is the future, the sooner u realize that, the better the game will be , watched more and more, waiting thrill since the first minute, BEFORE the first move, not after 5 hours, during the final.
With 960, no need of memory only.
Mandy711 wrote:
To anyone. If you played a game that ends in 30 moves, can u remember all 30 moves?
Yes, and that's because most of them are not new anyway, the first 15 moves are generally equal to many other games played before and there's some inner logic for the played moves, meaning basically remembering the action contained within the moves.
Mar 14, 2016
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yes
that is what kills the thrill of the fifteen / twenty first moves.
Then if you're not a specialist of the Najdorf, no need to watch MVL before the thirteenth move.
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Or russin schol on the Berlin wall, Drawjackin' leader.
The last london chess classic: 50% Berlin wall, draws 90%+.
It's a headache only trying to memorize 1st 15 moves of opening theory. For otb tournament, a 15 move opening book in memory is very useful to save time on the clock and have more time in middlegame and endgame. And memorizing is not really my strength. Cant remember 1 full song lyrics or 3 stanza poem. Im good in remembering patterns. And would go for sacrifice without calculating. Sometimes its a pseudo sacrifice 😊
It is an advantage in chess to have very good memory. WC Carlsen is said to have 10,000 games in his memory. It needs good memory to recognize tactical pattern. And remember opening theory. But can playing chess improves our memory so we can perform better at school and work?