Dyslexia and chess

I was wondering: me having dyslexia and so, I was wondering does it have any impact on playing chess? Some say it does, but when me playing with a friend board and pieces at me home porch it seems it aint bothering me. Was wondering. Anyway, me playing faster games here on a screen, it seems I often forget parts of the board to see, that pieces still standing there existing. Sometimes I fully miss it seeing. So I was wanderin, anyone knows?

This is a tough question - there are a number of competing theories about the cause of dyslexia and they differ in terms of whether nonlingual spatial abilities (like chess-playing) are affected as well.

Very roughly speaking, there are two camps: One seeks the source of the disorder in the auditory systems of the brain, the others in the visual systems. If the cause of dyslexia is auditory in nature, then chess-playing most likely is not affected but if the underlying defect of dyslexia is visual in nature, then it would have an impact on chess as well.

Either way, oversights like you describe them happen to most players and decrease with practice. They happen to me, too, and I am not dyslexic (any typos in this post being caused by fat fingers).

That's helpful. Problem is some people saying us having the problems reading well, that makes us dumb or so. I think not I am dumb or so (neither smart also, I do not realy expect any whitecoats science bein eager to examin my brain when I died or so). When I go hunting with Sam my neighbour I am very good targetting the rabits and so, so thats ok. My ma  (92 years old and still working the fields from times to times) she always tellin me garbage as: Warnewul, if you cant see it it aint there, she always says. your sayings above so are quit helpful. I think you maybe also a farmer with some kind of brain disorder? I myself was never ashamed to tell the folks I had dyslexia, and they never bothered. Just askin, you sound quite intelligent to me. Anaway thanks.

Nope, I am one of the whitecoat scientists - when we can't figure out stuff just, we're still interested ;)

Regarding dyslexia and intelligence... that's just prejudice from people who don't know better. If you want to explain things to them, you can compare your condition with color blindness. Present from birth, not treatable and impeding in some situations - but not correlated with intelligence.

Color blindnes, then we are talkin, seems my neighbour Sam got that, he says. Seems the reason he time after time failes to catch Clem while hunting, Clem (Red Fox of about 14 pounds) grabbing 10ths of checken and rabbits of his property, we were hunting for Clem for over 8 years now and us always fails to catch Clem, most smart animal I ever seen in my whole life can tell you that

Anyway I dont mind loosing games or, never do, that aint thepoint. I live in a little hamlet some 5 miles from Wakeeney and in hot evenings most of us gather to play some games as chess, checkers and armwrestling and so, to pass the time,listening banjo and jukelele and so, well, you know. But often when I play some over the board chess, I sometimes by error end up capturing my own pieces on the board and claim haven won the game, while others then laugh about me, well, I dontmind or so, cause the dyslexia and all. I like my friends, we make our own boose and so and having those with fresh caught squirrels on the hot nights, well we always got our fun anyway. So, me, I dont mind having some brain disorder reading written stuff. And see, people from the big cities all reading well, what tey gonna do on holidays? They end up havin real times in hamlets as us have. Anyway there aint much in our hamlet to read anyway sind old man Pike died some 3 years ago, he was making each week some news pamflets for us to read (often others reading the suff aloud, so we only had to listen).

My ma saying alwways saying: it aint good those mariages within the own families, it aint good. But in hamlets like us, there hardly are any decent women available,so somemarry a sister or niece, what else. I never did, I was single whole my life and I do not regret that a bit (still got Big Bessy!!! My hands full of her can tell you that !) So all in all, I am a happy person. Surprised to hear you are a real whitecoat scienceperson? I feel honoured much, thank you.

Listen this mister Kypromacer, you will like it Doc (sure my favourite sounds):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DacWR3A20Tk

And this song:

Aint that sometin!! Lovin those songs, we got hundreds of em

I am askin: I was lookin at "more puzzles" "impossible puzzle (part II), and now am askin: what the h*** kind of opening was played there? White having 4 Queens and lots of other woodsfilled with em white pieces, black endin up havin only King and Bishop and only 1x peasant and still hopin to win?? (we call em peasants, as cityfilks do call em pawn). What was the opening moves then?

Sam and I was was lookin this morning at it: 3 moves winnin?? Sam says can be won of course , but not in 3 moves, Sam says getting a fifth Queen and all is well for white winning. So Sam says that puzzle was totally wrong, cant be done in 3, never ever, that what Sam says. And Sam knows chess, I mean, he knows chess better than catching Clem the fox that one always outsmarts him, but Sam knows his chess). So, what kind of chess does you Cityfolks play nowadays anywy??? Just askin

Saw there "the ten greatest of music" and why aint Grandpa Jones in it there???

Legend!

nowadays me don't understand city people anymore. Don't understand the fish anymore either, me and Sam went fishin day ago, but the fish seems getting smarter, seein us coming from far, yes, smart fish. So Sam and me placing bait, ut the fish just circle the bait, as if they laughing us. Ask me, those fishis nowadays aint realy adventurous anymore, not taking challenges anymore risking ending up on Sam plate as a 'todays nice dinner', so yes, those fish getting smarter (just as old Clem laughin a Sam and me).

Think gonna play some chess now and lisen Grandpa Jones,guess i will loose again as most times, but me I don mind or so. Winning a game, that would realy disrubt my daily routine, so better loose and drink the booseha

oh, maye this, Sam sad place his aout actin, ake a look, funny:

and then this:

Sam sayes: tar and feathers for tha last one, just as in the old days, yeah

Give me Grandpa Jone, he for sure aint actin! great:

Sam's sun visitin us for some month havin the machine he calls a laptoop bringin with him. Him showing sometimes funny thing on tha machine, makes us all laugh, showed us this today, funny:

Me mom seein this askin: Warnewul, see, those city people they make em believe all kinds of things like that? how is that possible? Told her yes, over there seems possible, real funny the madebelief.

Reminds me some 25 years ago such hypnotist tried it on me and others in Wakeeney showing for fun, but did not work on me (the others he made asleep, not me). Him saying, "Warnewul, it seems not to work on that brain of yours. Told him because probably we was from out of town and "we always sleep light", I mean us living bit closer o nature keeping our senses sharp, I think, or so. But funny stuff that is, the hypnosis I mean citypeoples do.

Sharing song Jones here (Grandpa Jones), sharing wisdom Sam says when grandpa singing the songs:

We here love them songs, no tv and so here, tonight open fire again, gathering around, dancin and drinkin some, thats real livin if you ask me.

Of to playin some chess now, bye you folks

My new girlfriend has dyslexia and I want to teach her chess. I also teach chess in Spanish and in English on YouTube and I want to learn what to focus on when I start teaching her. Any suggestions?

Rick in Syracuse

I find I can understand the basic idea of certain tactical exchanges, but I have days where somehow, I get the move order backwards. Other days I am simply perfect with little effort. I don't understand it, but it is a lot like dealing with someone's mood swings, yet I only have myself to blame. I also suffer phonetic dyslexia at times. I type one instead of won or where instead of wear, etc. What is weird is that I didn't seem to have this problem that I was aware of in my youth, but maybe I needed chess puzzles and extensive typing to bringing it out. I also tend to mix up the order of letters I type, of words I have no trouble spelling when I hand write them.