jutzfliege Question : Why not a single chess player in the Top 10 of the FIDE for someone who began his career as an adult? It seems almost impossible to find someone who excels at chess, if I missed playing in childhood? What is important to play as a child? Best answer:
Reply by mark h
adults have jobs, wives, children, lyrics , problems, etc etc etc
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A Player could play in his or her childhood and stink at it so what’s the difference? in russia they have special schools and the best teachers in the world who train and support their pupils there’s a steady system that supports them like olympic athletes it’s also easier to teach chess to children than adults they absorb what you tell them like a sponge they aren’t color blinded by their egos and they won’t argue every single point you make like a lawyer.
This is true for any sport. How many Olympic athletes started late? In ice skating for example if you’re a tender young 9 year old that’s much too late.
Kid’s brains are set up to soak up tons of information. Think how much you learned from 5 to 10 to 15 to 20, these are enormous gaps in intellect because the brain is absorbing so much every day. Contrast this with 35 to 40 which we would consider the same.
You can do some reading in the cognitive side of developmental psychology/biology. Or you can just look around. How many kids pick up gadgets faster? I saw a 5 year old in a game shop who could barely reach the controller figure out the nintendo wii — in about 2 min he was making the character run around jump and do everything.
Hello,
I too have wondered what one could accomplish by thrusting themselves into chess first as an adult.
All the world champions have childhood stories of learning the game at a hideously young age.
I’ve incessantly pondered if one could become world champion if they learned the game at a late age, and had missed out on a chess-filled childhood.
I’ve also wondered if one could ever become world champion without ever having a personal International Master living blocks away training them every day.
It seems cruel, for, as I personally learned chess later in life than Bobby Fischer, Kasparov, Karpov, Capablanca, Topalov, Reshevsky, Murphy, or any of the other great names in chess, and I can’t afford a personal trainer, and therefore have neither the experience or the knowledge so many already have in a starting advantage over me, any chances I have to make an endeavor at becoming the world’s best will all be scoffed… even by myself, perhaps.
I don’t live in New York, so there aren’t exactly tournaments every single week for me to participate in, so that also is a disadvantage.
I don’t have Lazlo Polgar for a father, so all my chess games will lack the mad skills of the Polgar sisters which their father taught them.
I don’t have Chessmaster, Deep Fritz 11, or any of those other chess computers to coach me.
My room is not filled with an elegant collection of chess works on openings, strategy, theory, etc.
So how, how… how could I ever contest against those that do!?
With already a plethora of disadvantages?
er… sorry for the bit of extra stuff in that answer which wasn’t really the answer… hm…
But someone with all the childhood coaching, plus the tournament experience, even if they’re only a mere 10 years old, will have a gross force thrusting them where all others are simply nudged.
Your Answerer,
~John~
When in childhood, a childs brain learns at a faster rate than an adults and the logical part develops greatly during this time if playing chess frequently. The only top level player I know of that started chess late was Mikhail Chigorin but that was over 100 years ago, the game has evolved a lot since then.
For an individual to reach this level of chess requires the rare marriage of extraordinary talent and extraordinary training to develop that talent. The evidence suggests that for a person to reach their true potential as a chess player, it is absolutely crucial they begin as early as possible. The fact is that the brain loses plasticity over the course of time and it becomes exceedingly difficult to integrate and process all of the necessary information to become an extremely advanced player.
In terms of a player beginning their “chess career”, so to speak, as an adult (18-21 years old) and then proceeding to become a world-class player, this is almost unheard of. For an adult novice to proceed to reach the level of even a minor master is extraordinarily rare; nevermind that of a world-class grandmaster. The only glaring exception which comes to mind would be Akiba Rubinstein, who learned chess at the “late” age of 16, and nearly became world champion. However, this was almost a century ago and chess has become increasingly competitive in the meantime. I am sure there are a handful of other exceptions out there that I am unaware of, but what I have stated are the facts.
I know at least 3 ppl in top ten… They are all young. Before it was very hard to learn good chess. Now after all those programs, such as rybka and fritz, chess became simpler… All u need is time, money (to go to the tournaments) and a good trainer… And who has time? Kids… I use to be a best player in my country and I started when I was 10… Now when u bring you 7 years old to the chess school, they tell you “His too old”…