Devils advocate, or is the devil in the details? The OP's statement that most people get this wrong at the same time attempted to put chess players as a group to the same task. The diagram dealt with squares and one was asked to deduce a number of squares of various size using basic spatial reasoning. I wonder why I ever thought chess players would just simply answer the question; the one about squares? LOL
Chess players take their squares very seriously ok!? Sure the average person can get away with a sloppy square here or there, but we have 64! If you don't have uniform size and proper alignment the diagonals and files go all crazy. Any person who truly loves chess also loves a properly formed and placed square.
as a whole the I thought chess players scored very well here very little coloring outside of the lines. A+ I was suprised no one proferred the amount of possible squares that would be possible on a chess board, assuming of course the board was made up of matchsticks..
There was a topic like this already. They answered how many squares, rectangles on a chess board and then some of them came up with formulas or programs they'd written to find the answer and then they also posted generalized formulas for boards of nxn size and how they came up with them... lol
Devils advocate, or is the devil in the details? The OP's statement that most people get this wrong at the same time attempted to put chess players as a group to the same task. The diagram dealt with squares and one was asked to deduce a number of squares of various size using basic spatial reasoning. I wonder why I ever thought chess players would just simply answer the question; the one about squares? LOL
Chess players take their squares very seriously ok!? Sure the average person can get away with a sloppy square here or there, but we have 64! If you don't have uniform size and proper alignment the diagonals and files go all crazy. Any person who truly loves chess also loves a properly formed and placed square.
as a whole the I thought chess players scored very well here very little coloring outside of the lines. A+ I was suprised no one proferred the amount of possible squares that would be possible on a chess board, assuming of course the board was made up of matchsticks..