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Does Chess Make You Smarter? What Chess Can Teach Us
10+ hour, 38+ min ago (801+ words) Updated August 23, 2026 | Reviewed by Tyler Woods When I was a kid in Iran, much of my time was spent studying. Whatever free time I had, I spent it reading or playing games. Tag, hide-and-seek, Lego, soccer, card games—you name…...
The View From the Far Side
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (514+ words) Posted June 7, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader The most dangerous thing about losing your mind is that, from the inside, it can feel like finally finding it. I am qualified to write about this in two ways that rarely occupy the…...
The Boy Who Folded: How Hassabis Turned Chess Into a Nobel
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (399+ words) Posted June 5, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. A ten-year-old boy stares at a chessboard and resigns a game he could have drawn. Hold that image. In my book Mastery, I argue that skills work the same way. Advanced abilities don’t…...
Play, for All (Hu)mankind: Peeling Out Where No One Had Peeled Out Before
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (430+ words) Posted April 9, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Waiting for the conversation to resume, the astronauts toyed with the mike. Of course, the mike didn’t drop the way it would have if released by a celebrating stand-up comedian. Instead, the astronauts let…...
Play, for All (Hu)mankind: Peeling Out Where No Men Had Peeled Out Before
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (368+ words) Posted April 9, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Waiting for the conversation to resume, the astronauts toyed with the mike. Of course, the mike didn’t drop the way it would have if released by a celebrating stand-up comedian. Instead, they let it…...
The Chess Game of Life: Why Every Move Matters
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (713+ words) Posted February 2, 2026 | Reviewed by Davia Sills I want to ask you a question: Do you think the choices you make today will have any impact on your future? If we stop to think about it, most of us would say,…...
Using Chess to Study Overconfidence
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (234+ words) Posted September 24, 2025 | Reviewed by Davia Sills On top of the general finding of overconfidence, there is also the well-known Dunning-Kruger effect, which finds that the less competent a person is in a domain, the more overconfident they tend to be....