Identifying talented juniors
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:50 pm
Just been watching an interesting edition of Horizon on BBC iPlayer.
It asks the question of what makes a genius. One of the clips shown features chess. Stuart Conquest is playing against the host, and their brain activity is compared. From that, the neuroscientist can predict that even if the host were as committed to chess as Conquest, then he would never be able to make it as a Grandmaster. Although, it should be noted that the neuroscientist went to extraordinary lengths to become a Grandmaster, but failed.
The neuroscientist also claims that he can predict whether young players have any hope of becoming a strong chess player just by these patterns in brain activity. If so, the most promising juniors could almost be cherry-picked to be trained up.
It asks the question of what makes a genius. One of the clips shown features chess. Stuart Conquest is playing against the host, and their brain activity is compared. From that, the neuroscientist can predict that even if the host were as committed to chess as Conquest, then he would never be able to make it as a Grandmaster. Although, it should be noted that the neuroscientist went to extraordinary lengths to become a Grandmaster, but failed.
The neuroscientist also claims that he can predict whether young players have any hope of becoming a strong chess player just by these patterns in brain activity. If so, the most promising juniors could almost be cherry-picked to be trained up.