Probably true and false, its a mixture of both. But i would say more of false because seeing the combinations are all about talent, openings and stuff only get you so far, but they do get you very far. I do not know much if not any about openings or stuff, but only my brain.
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I think talent is like 5% and 95% is hard work no matter what field we are talking about in general.
High spatial intelligence is very advantagous in chess. But on its own not enough. Still need alot of hard work and memorization aswell.
Intelligence in general helps but not all ingelligent people will be good at chess. If you are terrible at spatial stuff then you will hit a wall compared to others that are good at it.
In short: Everyone can get up to a certain (fairly high) level if they want/try but to reach super GM level you need that extra talent (in this case high spatial intelligence and memorization).
Chess pieces are not visualised as they would appear normally over the board , but are represented purely symbolically in terms of their power of movement and control of certain squares. a great degree of Spatial Inteligence i believe is required...
Interesting test where once conducted of the player Reshevsky at 8 years old and the only difference between him and other kids that did not play chess was his ability in test of memory...
1. A skilled tactical player can reach a high level in chess with only limited opening or endgame study.Tactical proficiency should be the 1st and most important goal of a developing player.
True ?
In my opinion most Grandmasters are not gifted logically but have a large store or 'Database ' of position in their brain. Stonger players spend not so much time consedering a great numbers of moves but just the strongest. Their analysis is based on the quality of the move. While weaker players spend more time considering multiple series of bad moves.
The capacity to build up a large store of chess paterns is needed for picking out relevant factors in a position. In a game you will see a cluster of positions that a stronger player can 'read' or see better than a weaker player. Tactics are what a vocabulary and grammar is for a poet or novelist.
All grand strategies of the game of chess already have been thought out?
True ? or False?
Can anyone with a reasonable intelligence could become a chess master?
No one is born with special skills just some are born with special potentials?
Intelligence
I think one of the most important part of a chess player is Spatial or Visual intelligence the ability described to be part of "the more abstract intelligence of a chess master, a battle commander, or a theoretical physicist".
A. People with strong visual-spatial intelligence are typically very good at visualizing and mentally manipulating objects.
B. A person with strong spatial intelligence are often proficient at solving puzzles.
C. A person with a strong spatial intelligence usually has a strong visual memory and are often artistically inclined.
Now to play well at chess you do not have to be a mathematician. The continous calculation of variations in a chess game is different in nature from the calculation of math.
True ?
There are various definitions of Intelligence.
a. The ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations.
b. The ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria.
c. The ability to process information.
d. The ability to deduce relationships.
e. The ability to learn.
f. The ability to judge well, to reason well and comprehend well.
Maybe members of the forums can give their opinion if some of these beliefs are false or true..