Intelligence - Chess

To win a chess, the master player thinks further ahead. The master has a powerful mind that can keep track of many possibilities. In addition, the chess master is able to memorize the layout of pieces on a chess board at a glance, but amateurs could only reconstruct the position of seven or eight pieces.

However, another surprise finding is: when the arrangements of pieces at random on the chess boards, the master became like amateurs, only placing some seven or eight pieces correctly. Apparently, through years of experiencce, master players learn to see in a quick and intuitive way typical arrangements of pieces. This phenomenon is called chunking. With experience in a domain, people learn to enode the world in larger chunks that hang together. That is, the master player can take in an entire board in the form of a few chunks... providing the arrangement is natural to chess.

The master chess intelligence depended in good part on quick perceptual insight developed through years of play. Chess masters were not just smart in general; they knew a lot about chess specifically.

In principle, one might expect a person with high intelligence to deduce the rest - good positions, good attacks, good sacrificecs. In practice, people with high IQs are at the mercy of an experienced player of more modest IQ. Nothing count like a rich fund of experience.