I received an email from an old friend upon resurrecting the blog. He wanted to bring the recent article at Chessbase.com concerning a topic about which I had written almost three years earlier (http://en.chessbase.com/post/evaluating-our-favourite-brain-boosters). I thanked him, informing that I had seen it first at GM Kevin Spraggett’s blog a few weeks earlier (http://www.spraggettonchess.com/more-bad-news-for-chess/). He wanted to know if I could tell him where to locate the earlier articles appearing on the AW. I could not do so offhand, but told him I would take the time to find them and with that accomplished I have decided to post them in the event anyone else would like to read them.
The article, written by David Ludden, Ph.D, appeared in the October 28 2017 of Psychology Today. He is a professor of psychology at Georgia Gwinnett College, whom I do not know and, to my knowledge, have never met, so I have absolutely no idea why he decided to write an article about such old news. I have no idea if he plays Chess, or any other game for that matter. I am as curious as anyone else as to why the article appeared.
This is a list, which may be incomplete, of the articles pertaining to the study, or possibly studies, written years ago:
February 24, 2015
The Future of Chess is Terrifying
February 25, 2015
Will Confusion Be Our Epitaph
February 27, 2015
Does Playing Chess Make You Smarter?
February 28, 2015
Can You Handle the Truth?
March 5, 2015
Chess Offers Low-level Gains for Society
https://blog.oup.com/2017/01/language-chess-linguistics/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/av4bb4/the-hidden-language-of-chess-players-225
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