To be honest it is really impossible to tell with an individual. Too many variables. But chess exercises your brain, gets you thinking. That's got to have some sort of benefit.
Does Chess make a person smarter at chess alone or in general?
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I think for kids chess improves their IQ. When one goes beyond teen age, chess may not have any effect on IQ.
The same could be said of any repetitive discipline.
Apr 6, 2013
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paulgottlieb wrote:
Chess alone, definitely! I've improved my chess playing quite a bit, but I'm the same jerk I used to be.
paulgottlieb you're funny ...+1!
No and it doesn't even make you smarter at chess. getting smarter would indicate some upward curve and i've been stuck at the same blitz rating for ages.
GM_fishys wrote:
No and it doesn't even make you smarter at chess. getting smarter would indicate some upward curve and i've been stuck at the same blitz rating for ages.
Actually if you play or study chess you get worse at it, not better. If you can stay the same then you are some sort of outlier or mutant.
Ubik42 wrote:
GM_fishys wrote:
No and it doesn't even make you smarter at chess. getting smarter would indicate some upward curve and i've been stuck at the same blitz rating for ages.
Actually if you play or study chess you get worse at it, not better. If you can stay the same then you are some sort of outlier or mutant.
Tarrasch says not to play even a single game of chess until you've read his entire 450 page book... im starting to think hes right.
Apr 6, 2013
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hmm... a guy smarter in Chess can be a jackass in real life. I don't know how such things happen. 
Hasn't done either for me.
top2pr you’re off the mark when you relate intelligence entirely to speed. While speed is a component, accuracy is far more important and the website you mention (luminosity) explains that along with the synaptic model you probably got from their site.
Chess can help over all with general intelligence, but the degree of help will vary from person to person. The mind is like a muscle the more you work it the stronger it gets. Improvement is difficult to quantify though. Improvement directly obtained from the practice of chess would only be applied to specific cognitive abilities of which there are at least five. As with everything it’s what you make it. I'm sure for those who truly study chess it can be a vehicle into deeper models of understanding
successsenthil wrote:
I know this is a controversial question.
It certainly seems to be an unending one...
No i believe chess makes one smarter in general!!! you know many educated people have the tendency to think to fast and skip several thoughtprocesses and therefore making errors. In chess you always get reminded again to think carefully, so in general i would assume that alone already makes a person much smarter.
successsenthil wrote:
. Do you agree with me?
Never agree with anyone. It stifles debate.
I agree! (oh crap)
PendejoCity1 wrote:
don't be a thread killer Clifton Long Island Mark is just having fun
It wasn't me (and use some punctuation, for Chrissake!)
TetsuoShima wrote:
No i believe chess makes one smarter in general!!!
Case in point? 
While doing some research and working with many hispanic/latino people, I have discovered that a word in one culture is different in another...While I had always thought puto meant one thing and pendejo another, I have had people from Honduras and Puerto Rico assure me, they can mean the same thing...
I know this is a controversial question. After playing many chess games, I finally came to a conclusion that chess makes a person smarter at chess and NOT in general. Do you agree with me?