New study shows masters use hidden part of brain:

sonhouse

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24 Jan 11

sonhouse

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24 Jan 11

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre70j62t-us-chess-brain/

Tiwaking

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24 Jan 11

This is very interesting!

Now all I need to do is convince some good chess players (New Zealand only has one Grand Master, and he is an import) to strap my Emotiv neuroheadset on and subject themselves to a series of tests to find out their secrets!

sonhouse

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Originally posted by Tiwaking
This is very interesting!

Now all I need to do is convince some good chess players (New Zealand only has one Grand Master, and he is an import) to strap my Emotiv neuroheadset on and subject themselves to a series of tests to find out their secrets!

Making little nanobots to sniff out the salient parts of the brain and reproduce that pattern in someone else?

What would happen to chess if every chess player was as strong as Kasparov?

hedonist

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24 Jan 11

Originally posted by sonhouse

What would happen to chess if every chess player was as strong as Kasparov?

Well for a start, Kasparov himself would only have an average rating. Which if you include all chessplayers, is about 1500elo 🙄

sonhouse

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Originally posted by hedonist
Well for a start, Kasparov himself would only have an average rating. Which if you include all chessplayers, is about 1500elo 🙄

I don't think that would happen considering Kas is retired. It would have an effect on active players. If every HS tournie had 2800 level players, I guess it would make for a lot of innovation in openings but would there be room for brilliancies?