Are great chess players usually great at math and physics?
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The connection is mostly psychological. In popular consciousness the traits associated with math and chess are very similar. "Smart people do this, it's hard to be good, it involves problem solving." And so their intuition says chess and math are linked, but in reality they're not.
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The connection is mostly psychological. In popular consciousness the traits associated with math and chess are very similar. "Smart people do this, it's hard to be good, it involves problem solving." And so their intuition says chess and math are linked, but in reality they're not.
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