American female chess champ refuses to wear hijab in Iran tournament

anatta said:
good gawd. Fischer was a prodigy. It had nothing to do with culture,"mommy and daddy" nothing to do with practice initially. He had an interest of course like any virtuoso and he took that innate ability all the way to the world championship.

Have you seen the movie "In Search of Bobby Fischer? the kid has talent and interest.
The parents recognize and channel it thru the Marshall Chess club guy.

You are trying to say it's not innate talent-it's simply practice. That is not true.
Many a person dedicated their time to chess and never got past the club level.

You have to be able to"see" the board, and the clearer you can, the better able you are to play.
That's all chess computers do - they number crunch.
But humans have an innate ability to reject unsound combinations -and that is where talent comes into play
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Well, I am not sure why you'd focus too much on Fischer, a bit of an anomaly, to understand the variation within populations. But of course, he was also exposed to chess at an early age and played a lot.

Oh I see, you have missed the point or don't understand statistics. Of course, there is an innate component in the individual chess player. But, we are looking for what explains the variations within populations. More than anything that is due to cultural influences that determine participation rates and practice hours.
 
Dick from the Internet said:
Well, I am not sure why you'd focus too much on Fischer, a bit of an anomaly, to understand the variation within populations. But of course, he was also exposed to chess at an early age and played a lot.

Oh I see, you have missed the point or don't understand statistics. Of course, there is an innate component in the individual chess player. But, we are looking for what explains the variations within populations. More than anything that is due to cultural influences that determine participation rates and practice hours.
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He played through every chess book he could get his hands on, even Russian-language books.
he was self-taught.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer
n March 1949, 6-year-old Bobby and his sister Joan learned how to play chess using the instructions from a set bought at a candy store.[20] When Joan lost interest in chess and Regina did not have time to play, it left Fischer to play many of his first games against himself.[21] When the family vacationed at Patchogue, Long Island, that summer, Bobby found a book of old chess games and studied it intensel
 
Dick from the Internet said:
Well, I am not sure why you'd focus too much on Fischer, a bit of an anomaly, to understand the variation within populations. But of course, he was also exposed to chess at an early age and played a lot.

Oh I see, you have missed the point or don't understand statistics. Of course, there is an innate component in the individual chess player. But, we are looking for what explains the variations within populations. More than anything that is due to cultural influences that determine participation rates and practice hours.
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You might want to ask why so many of the best players are Jews or of Jewish origin!

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"You might want to ask why so many of the best players are Jews or of Jewish origin!" #83

I might want to ask if that's true.

Do you have a time band quantification on it? I understand in the 1940's Earth's Jewish population dipped. But accounting for that, is the % Jewish chess grand-masters higher than Jews in Earth's population?
 
The only good proof for a genetic component to some sort of skill mastery within a population is probably found in West African runners.
 
They're probably overlapping bell-curves. The most spacially adept female is probably more spacially adept than the least spacially adept male.

"Well of course that's true, you fool" TK #80

Wouldn't you be just as insulting if I was wrong? So you insult me for being right?

"And BTW it's "spatial" not "spacial". THINK, illiterate liberal."

Thanks. But I'm a scientist, not a school-marm.
spacial (spâ´shel) adjective
Variant of spatial.

Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.
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What do you know! Right AGAIN !!!
 
Milagro said:
I asked first.

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You didn't ask me. You asked TDAK.

Since you think asking someone first means they should answer, get to answering. I bet you won't.
 
CFM said:
You didn't ask me. You asked TDAK.

Since you think asking someone first means they should answer, get to answering. I bet you won't.
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So what? You two are just clones!! I have provided those details enough times on here. Seek boy seek!!

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sear said:
"You might want to ask why so many of the best players are Jews or of Jewish origin!" #83

I might want to ask if that's true.

Do you have a time band quantification on it? I understand in the 1940's Earth's Jewish population dipped. But accounting for that, is the % Jewish chess grand-masters higher than Jews in Earth's population?
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45% of the top 64 players of all time are Jewish or Jewish descent.

http://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Warriors_List.html

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Milagro said:
Oh and you've obviously never heard of Judit Polgár, she became a Grandmaster at the age of fifteen beating the record set by Bobby Fischer. She has also defeated both Gary Kasparov and Boris Spassky. Maybe a better question might be why so many Russian and Eastern European players dominate chess, fancy answering that one?

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Because vodka and chess go together?
 
anatta said:
I never knew that..I wonder why?
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Yes it is quite extraordinary that a group comprising 0.002% of the world's population has 45% of all time best players. I am sure that our Dick will explain, he's good at that bellcurve stuff.

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Milagro said:
Yes it is quite extraordinary that a group comprising 0.002% of the world's population has 45% of all time best players. I am sure that our Dick will explain, he's good at that bellcurve stuff.

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Where's Dicky when you need him?

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Althea said:
If a woman from Europe came to America to compete in a chess tournament, but demanded to play topless, would authorities allow it?
Europe isn't hung up on nudity the way we are. Similarly, Iran is hung up on women covering themselves. Non sequitur aside, isn't this the real question here?
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A (female) archaeologist friend of mine was working in Iran a few years back, at the cost of having to dress according to the current local codes. Female dress, like so many other things, is part of world-wide sexism, certain males feeling they have the right to tell women what to wear, and an awful lot of women going along for a quiet life. We might ask why certain kinds of western women are expected to take their clothes off, or wear very little in unsuitable weather. The sport thing is like the old idea that it was 'unfeminine' to be good at maths or science, or be cleverer than your partner. Doing family history I find quite a few women pretending not to be able to read and write at marriage (including one schoolteacher!), though it may be that an enforced official foreign language confused things sometimes. I think chess is a similar business, and you have, after all, to be at least a little interested in the first place - and I speak as one who was never able to beat anyone but his maths teacher!
 
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