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Aging in Chess

#2

I think your article needs correcting - by the age of 40 brains shrink by about 5% per DECADE, not per year!

I think your article needs correcting - by the age of 40 brains shrink by about 5% per DECADE, not per year!
#3

Yeah, Hikaru said he would still play classical.

Yeah, Hikaru said he would still play classical.
#4

The analysis is very flawed because it does not take into account the psychological characteristics of the player, more precisely written: brain shrinkage is nothing compared to the reduction of motive, psychological calibrations or simply boredom with doing the same thing (life can also go differently...besides chess). This article is misleading in its conclusions based on measured characteristics. It would be good if the author repeated the analysis in more depth on scientific grounds

The analysis is very flawed because it does not take into account the psychological characteristics of the player, more precisely written: brain shrinkage is nothing compared to the reduction of motive, psychological calibrations or simply boredom with doing the same thing (life can also go differently...besides chess). This article is misleading in its conclusions based on measured characteristics. It would be good if the author repeated the analysis in more depth on scientific grounds
#5

Hikaru's comment truly gave me chills, and the explanation was good. How much time did it take to explore this, and what did you think of it?

Hikaru's comment truly gave me chills, and the explanation was good. How much time did it take to explore this, and what did you think of it?
#6

How do you explain Anand?

How do you explain Anand?
#7

@Enacba
I understand your point, and of course my blog is far from perfect. However, the characteristics that you listed would be quite hard to take into account. But I agree with the reason that people also lose motivation. For instance, also on the top 10 list was GM Peter Leko, who left chess not because of age but because he lost the World Championship to Kramnik. However, I tried to take into account instances that take only age into account. Ivanchuk, for instance, is still playing a lot and seems motivated, but has declined, nonetheless.
I think "misleading" is too strong a conclusion, but of course the conclusions are not extremely precise with the small amount of people looked at and other reasons not taken into effect.

@Enacba I understand your point, and of course my blog is far from perfect. However, the characteristics that you listed would be quite hard to take into account. But I agree with the reason that people also lose motivation. For instance, also on the top 10 list was GM Peter Leko, who left chess not because of age but because he lost the World Championship to Kramnik. However, I tried to take into account instances that take only age into account. Ivanchuk, for instance, is still playing a lot and seems motivated, but has declined, nonetheless. I think "misleading" is too strong a conclusion, but of course the conclusions are not extremely precise with the small amount of people looked at and other reasons not taken into effect.
#8

@proayaangmailcom23 said in #5:

Hikaru's comment truly gave me chills, and the explanation was good. How much time did it take to explore this, and what did you think of it?
Thank you for your encouragement! To research all this and write it out took maybe 3 hours, maybe 5, but I was also thinking about it earlier, during the World Rapid.

@proayaangmailcom23 said in #5: > Hikaru's comment truly gave me chills, and the explanation was good. How much time did it take to explore this, and what did you think of it? Thank you for your encouragement! To research all this and write it out took maybe 3 hours, maybe 5, but I was also thinking about it earlier, during the World Rapid.
#9

@asafebgi
I think there are multiple possible reasons, but one possibly important one is genetics. One scientific paper writes: "Their GWAS showed that a whopping 80 SNPs from four independent loci (think of loci like a "genetic street address" telling you where something is located on a gene) show significant associations with relative brain age derived from a CNN (again, that's just a special neural network scientists use)." So essentially, genetics play a large part in the brain aging. Another explanation would be that he is very motivated to encourage younger people by playing, but to me this explanation feels less likely.

@asafebgi I think there are multiple possible reasons, but one possibly important one is genetics. One scientific paper writes: "Their GWAS showed that a whopping 80 SNPs from four independent loci (think of loci like a "genetic street address" telling you where something is located on a gene) show significant associations with relative brain age derived from a CNN (again, that's just a special neural network scientists use)." So essentially, genetics play a large part in the brain aging. Another explanation would be that he is very motivated to encourage younger people by playing, but to me this explanation feels less likely.
#10

That's very good information. Your article truly explains one of the most important quantitative factors that decides the strength of human brain, age. Exception always occurs (like the chemistry) and that is mostly controlled by qualitative factors (like psychological factors, motivation etc).

That's very good information. Your article truly explains one of the most important quantitative factors that decides the strength of human brain, age. Exception always occurs (like the chemistry) and that is mostly controlled by qualitative factors (like psychological factors, motivation etc).