Are Chess Players Actually Good at Math?

Описание: A grandmaster can see ten moves ahead — so chess players must be math geniuses, right? Not exactly.

We put the question through 4 tests: how grandmasters really "calculate" (de Groot and Chase & Simon's famous memory experiments), the world champions who were real mathematicians (Emanuel Lasker, John Nunn, Noam Elkies), what happened when scientists taught chess to thousands of children, and whether being smart actually makes you better at chess. Plus: why there are more possible chess games than atoms in the universe.

Chapters
0:00 Are grandmasters math geniuses?
0:51 Test 1: Calculator or Memory?
2:42 Test 2: The Mathematician Champions
5:13 Test 3: Does Chess Make Kids Better at Math?
7:00 Test 4: Does Being Smart Help?
9:00 The verdict

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