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==== Intelligence and chess performance ==== Chess prodigies may have higher [[Intelligence quotient|IQs]] than normal children. This positive link between chess skills of prodigies and intelligence is particularly significant on the “performance intelligence”, regarding fluid reasoning, spatial processing, attentiveness to details, and visual-motor integration, while least significant on the “verbal intelligence”, regarding the ability to understand and reason using concepts framed in words.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Frydman |first1=Marcel |last2=Lynn |first2=Richard |date=May 1992 |title=The general intelligence and spatial abilities of gifted young Belgian chess players |url=https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1992.tb02437.x |journal=British Journal of Psychology |language=en |volume=83 |issue=2 |pages=233–235 |doi=10.1111/j.2044-8295.1992.tb02437.x |pmid=1611410 |issn=0007-1269|url-access=subscription }}</ref> However, this positive link is absent among adult experts. Remarkably, in the sample of chess prodigies, the more intelligent children played chess worse. This is considered as the result of less practice time of more intelligent chess skills.
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