does chess really improve your math?

if your answer is yes..give me an example..of yourself or a celebrity.i think it just improves attention..quick thinking..and decipliness..

I'm not sure about decipliness but I used to think that chess improves a person's speeling.

I would say: Yes, chess does improve our math, based on the ability to calculate mathematical equations more efficiently.  Also, 4 me, gives me more confidence, psycologically. 

SZ.

Both chess and math are indicative of a deeper ability to handle abstract concepts. I don't think that one improves the other. Of course you can talk about such things as discipline and calculation, but there are so many activities which do this that it is kind of trivial to talk about chess in particular.

I doubt it.  Calculus is not getting any easier.

There has been considerable research done on this, a google search will reveal. Check out: http://www.quadcitychess.com/benefits_of_chess.html. In general, there seems to be a correlation between teaching chess and improved math performance.

I think it improves concentration, and develops memory. I know I have improved in memorizing things this year with my exams, and I think chess helped.

But dear golly I hope you aren't a discipliness yourself: http://www.definition-of.com/discipliness

Do you mean "discipline?"

I think it improves your ability with mathematical logic, the study of logic is easier for an experienced chess player who has already studied a mathematical notation system (chess notation) and already understands logic, even though the logic is affected by the opponents wishes or character.

Chess also improves spacial analysis, so it could arguably increase combat skills more than math skills :/

Otherwise, no not really, mathematics involves numerical and algebraic calculation, while chess is often an attack plan or strategy.

 a "man/woman" - is that like a cross - a he/she maybe?  Wait a minute, my mother was a woman and my father was a man - does that make me a man/woman?  Now I have something else to be freaked out about....

To answer seriously though, chess is about a number of mental processes, one of which is Pattern Recognition - it is not really formulaic on any level we can understand and I would say does not help any branch of maths that we currently use.

The statement man/woman means man or woman, in polite society back in the 1980's it was often respecatable to put woman/man when explaining no differentiation between the sexes, in instances such as job adverts. That is all thanks to the womens lib movement. I think competitive chess often gets accused of lowering the status of female competitors and has for example often offered lower prize stakes for tournaments.

Vacuous....a) not all scots are neds just like not all english are wee fannies; b) racial stereotyping is not witty; c) if you are proud to be english then dont fly the "UK" flag, use the english one.

Edit - I notice you changed your post.

fair enough :P I was reffering to pattern recognition and connecting the concept of violence to chess and logic, not intending to be joking about national stereotypes.

should that be "sexual differentiation" instead of "differentiation between the sexes" hehe

either way the point is chess, logic, math and violence, war, conquest, subtlety and intriuge all connect ...

spider vs beetle looks like Queen + King vs King in the case of small beetles.

i think math improves your chess.

do you have to be good to learn these things? because I'm horrible and have learned nothing.

....but it's fun

it dosn't improve my math but it does make logic and other brain skils beter

It doesn't.  I'm great at math and not so hot at chess