They spend a lot of time on chess instead.
Why don't professional chess players excel in their academics?
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Sep 3, 2016
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Because many chess players have a INTP personality as long as they find things interesting they will leave no stone unturned but if something doesnt catch their interest they dont care. They dont care about status, money, education they dont care about what society value.
Sep 3, 2016
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Do you mean people like Dr. Emanuel Lasker (Ph.D. in math), Dr. Max Euwe (Ph.D. in math), Dr. Mikhail Botvinnik (Ph.D in engineering) and Dr. Anatoly Karpov (Ph.D. in economics)? Or Dr. Reuben Fine (psychology), Dr. Robert Huebner (papyrology), Dr. Jonathan Speelman (math), Dr. John Nunn (math) and Dr. Victor Bologan (pedagogy)?
Interesting ovedia. My self am an ENTP, how does that change my chess abilities ?
super like.... Wayne Thomas. ..
Sep 3, 2016
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It doesnt say anything about your chess abilitys only your functions. ENTPs are more likely to explore the real world. While INTPs are satisfied with only knowing they could do something in theory, they prefer to watch other make waves and not make any themselves. ENTP are more real world inclined, while INTP lives in a theoretical world which explains why so many INTPs are attracted to chess. I bet most of the top players today goes as INTP. I think topalov and kasparov could be ENTP
Sep 3, 2016
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ovedia wrote:
How come you dont mention any top players today?
Victor Bologan is rated 2648. He would fall just outside the top 100 or so players in the world.
Viswanathan Anand has a bachelor of Commerce. Wesley So started the B.A. program at Webster University. Le Quang Liem 2723 and Ray Robson 2674 are still at Webster. Vladimir Kramnik studied at Novgorod University for a little while. Levon Aronian has a diploma from the Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture. Sanan Sjugirov 2653 is currently a student at Ural State Mining University in Russia. Gata Kamsky 2637 has studied in both med school and law school.
Coz they spend too much time on chess.
Your theory is very interesting, I never thought that chess could been linked to personality. Are you yourself an INTP ? (SFMBE :p)
Because, a handful of (mostly historic) exceptions aside, it's basically one or the other. If you're going to be a professional chess player then that means devoting a huge part of your day to the play and study of chess. That doesn't leave much time for intensive study of much else.
John Nunn
As a junior, he showed a prodigious talent for the game and in 1967, at twelve years of age, he won the British under-14 Championship. At fourteen, he wasLondon Under-18 Champion for the 1969/70 season[2] and less than a year later, at just fifteen years of age, he proceeded to Oriel College, Oxford, to study mathematics. At the time, he was Oxford's youngest undergraduate sinceCardinal Wolsey in 1520.[3] Graduating in 1973, he went on to gain his doctorate in 1978 with a thesis on finite H-spaces (titled "Some Problems in Algebraic Topology"[4]), and remained at Oxford University as a mathematics lecturer until 1981, when he became a professional chess player.
About the Myers Briggs type indicator: http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/have-we-all-been-duped-by-the-myers-briggs-test/
Be careful about using it to explain human behavior.
Be careful about using it to explain human behavior.
nimzomalaysian wrote:
Chess players are known to have exceptional memory, concentration and analytical ablilities, you would expect that with all these skills they would do really good at academics. But, they don't. What could be the reason?
That is an interesting question. It reminds me of something I have always wondered. Olympic athletes are known for their endurance, perseverence, and strength. You would expect that with all these skills they would be really agile. But they aren't. Why are they so clumsy?
Sep 26, 2016
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lfPatriotGames wrote:
nimzomalaysian wrote:
Chess players are known to have exceptional memory, concentration and analytical ablilities, you would expect that with all these skills they would do really good at academics. But, they don't. What could be the reason?
That is an interesting question. It reminds me of something I have always wondered. Olympic athletes are known for their endurance, perseverence, and strength. You would expect that with all these skills they would be really agile. But they aren't. Why are they so clumsy?
What do you mean? They ARE agile and not clumsy.
Chess players are known to have exceptional memory, concentration and analytical ablilities, you would expect that with all these skills they would do really good at academics. But, they don't. What could be the reason?