Questions tagged [aging]
Use for questions relating to aging in chess
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What can you do to slow/stop the decline in chess ability with age?
Prompted by Hauke's question about papers on the influence of aging on chess. Those answers demonstrated that decline sets in sometime in the 40's and starts getting steeper in the 50's. There ...
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Chess and aging
Chess playing strength, like IQ, is a multifaceted thing.
To my best knowledge, it's at least commonly agreed that when aging, you rather lose tactical attentiveness than positional understanding. I ...
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How do age and initial rating correlate to decline in playing strength with age?
The current Rausis phone cheating scandal saw a player with an initial rating of about 2500 in his 50's improve by about 200 rating points in 6 years. This improvement was remarkable because older ...
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