Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sun, Jul 31, 2005 01:20 AM UTC:Chess has influence in IQ improvements, according to numerous studies, but I have found, finally, an interesting article, confirming my suspects: From: The Psychology of Chess Skill By J. Corey Butler, PhD '...One hypothesis that has been around for many years is that people who become strong chess players have exceptional intelligence and/or memory. This belief is quite popular with highly rated chess players, but potentially discouraging to the general population. Fortunately, there is little solid evidence to support this viewpoint. In fact, most researchers have found minimal correlations between measures of IQ and official chess ratings. On the other hand, many grandmasters appear to have a phenomenal memory. They can recall games played years ago, move by move, and when shown an unfamiliar chess position for only a few seconds, they can reproduce it with very few mistakes on a new board and set. The catch, however, is that this feat is only possible when they are given positions taken from actual games. When the position is random, the master does only about as well as the amateur. General intelligence and memory by themselves do not appear to distinguish great chess players from ordinary ones...' You don´t need to become a master for being smarter. Practice Chess, that´s all. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Smarter? does not match any item.