Does Playing Chess Make You Smarter?
Let’s start with this: if intelligence could be bought in 64 squares, every school would’ve replaced math class with a pawn structure seminar.
The myth that chess makes you smarter is seductive. It conjures the image of the quiet genius, brow furrowed, sacrificing a bishop to set up a five-move checkmate. We see Bobby Fischer demolishing Cold War adversaries and imagine that somewhere, buried in the Sicilian Defense, lies a magic pill for brainpower.
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