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Does playing chess make you smarter? A look at the evidence
(theconversation.com)
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This is a bad article.
Being more "intelligent" makes one better at chess and chess reinforces patterns traditionally seen as a measure of intelligence.
Being good at chess is: memorization and pattern recognition. Being able to abstract and anticipate. All of these things are traditionally seen as intelligence. But that's a bad way of looking at intelligence and chess, generally.