MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'chess'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:08:51 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3437679&cid=t_104619_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fblisstree-video-of-the-day-sofia-vergaras-stalemate%2F Gloria strategizes about her rooks and her old man on ABC’s Modern Family: Post from: BlissTree Blisstree Video of the Day: Sofia Vergara's Stalemate (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3437679 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:33:51 +0100 3437679 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2588257&cid=t_104619_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F10%2Fthe-gendered-situation-of-chess%2F From ChessBase News:  “Normally knowing your enemy is an advantage. Not so in chess games between the sexes. In a study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 38, Issue 2 (March/April 2008) (pdf here), Anne Maass, Claudio D’Ettole, Mara Cadinu, Dr Anne Maass (et al.) pitted male and female players against each other via the Internet. Women showed a 50% performance decline when they were aware that they were playing a male opponent.”  Here’s the article’s abstract. * * * Women are surprisingly underrepresented in the chess world, representing less that 5% of registered tournament players worldwide and only 1% of the world’s grandmasters. In this paper it is argued that gender stereotypes are mainly responsible for the underper... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2588257 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:09:42 +0100 2588257 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2380881&cid=t_104619_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F04%2F30%2Ftherapist-interview-felix-treitler-leaves-the-couch-behind%2F Midweek Mental Greening You might remember my post about Felix Treitler’s new spin on therapy a few weeks ago. If not, here’s a little refresher course: Felix Treitler is a Boston-based Certified Tennis Professional and Licensed Therapist who has combined his love of physical activity and helping others to create an interesting kind of therapy. This week, I was able to email with Treitler about this new kind of “sports therapy” (for which I learned there is a more appropriate name), how he came to combine his two passions to provide this therapy to clients, and the positive responses he’s received from both clients and mental health professionals thus far. Read on! Alicia Sparks: Before we dive into anything else, why don’t you explain the kind of therapy ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2380881 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:21:50 +0100 2380881 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2376434&cid=t_104619_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FEavTuUVhM1A%2F Several recent articles and news: Brain Gain: the underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs‎ (The New Yorker) - "Alex remains enthusiastic about Adderall, but he also has a slightly jaundiced critique of it. “It only works as a cognitive enhancer insofar as you are dedicated to accomplishing the task at hand,” he said. “The number of times I’ve taken Adderall late at night and decided that, rather than starting my paper, hey, I’ll organize my entire music library! I’ve seen people obsessively cleaning their rooms on it.” Alex thought that generally the drug helped him to bear down on his work, but it also tended to produce writing with a characteristic flaw. “Often, I’ve looked back at papers I’ve written on Adderall, and they’re verbose. They’re belabo... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2376434 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:59:05 +0100 2376434 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2122292&cid=t_104619_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F518745212%2F In 1993, Paramount Pictures released Searching for Bobby Fischer, which depicts Joshua Waitzkin's early chess success as he embarks on a journey to win his first National chess championship. This movie had the effect of weakening his love for the game as well as the learning process. His passion for learning was rejuvenated, however, after years of meditation, and reading philosophy and psychology. With this rekindling of the learning process, Waitzkin took up the martial art Tai Chi Chuan at the age of 21 and made rapid progress, winning the 2004 push hands world championship at the age of 27. After reading Joshua's most recent book The Art of Learning, I thought of a million topics I wanted to discuss with him--topics such as being labelled a "child prodigy", blooming, creativi... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2122292 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:35:39 +0100 2122292 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1750250&cid=t_104619_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FT7Wve6urULE%2F Not that it matters—does it matter?—or not, might this (future) chess grandmaster, 17-year-old Magnus Carlsen, be on the autism spectrum? “Magnus’s parents have not had their son tested for developmental disorders because he is well-enough adjusted socially,”, the New York Times writes. And: Henrick Carlsen said his son’s progress in chess was typical for him. “Sometimes, he’s been thought to be slow,” he said. But when he gets interested in something, “then he accelerates.” He added, “I don’t think he is conscious of this approach. It is innate.” He said that his son, from a young age, exhibited an ability to focus single-mindedly. One day, the father recalled, when Magnus was 4, he spent six hours building a train out of Legos. A half-hour afte... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1750250 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:00:06 +0100 1750250 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1389010&cid=t_104619_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautism.gbrettmiller.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fnormal-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-2%2F I came across the following quote from author Vladimir Nabakov, used in Edmonds’ and Eidinow’s book Bobby Fischer Goes to War: There is nothing abnormal about a chess player being abnormal. This is normal. Just seemed like something I should post. (Source: 29 Marbles) 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1389010 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:20:08 +0100 1389010 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1383725&cid=t_104619_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautism.gbrettmiller.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fwhat-if-they-had-been-diagnosed-autistic%2F In his book Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism, author Roy Richard Grinker mentions chess legend Bobby Fischer (p. 63) as someone who may have been an undiagnosed autistic. I’ve just started reading David Edmonds’ book Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How A Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine (P.S.), and have to say that I was thinking the same thing. (For more discussion on the subject check out the Bobby Fischer talk page on Wikipedia.) Which got me thinking: If Fischer were indeed autistic, how would his life - and the history of chess, among other things - have been different if he had been diagnosed when he was young? If he had been provided the treatment and services that are typically demanded today for Asperger’s diagnoses, would he have had... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1383725 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:58:34 +0100 1383725 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1369680&cid=t_104619_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautism.gbrettmiller.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fhow-about-a-nice-game-of-chess%2F Remember at the end of the early-80’s movie, War Games, when Matthew Broderick’s character David showed the WOPR how to play tic-tac-toe, and then how the WOPR learned the futility of global thermonuclear war by comparing it to tic-tac-toe?  And how WOPR (or Joshua) then commented on the futility of a game that can not be won (except by not playing), and asked David if he would like to play a “nice game of chess”? I can’t help wondering if the whole vaccine / autism thing is an exercise in futility for both sides, a game of unwinnable tic-tac-toe, or if it is a game of chess, still in the opening phase with the middle-and end-games left to come.  And if it is a game that can be won, what exactly is it that the victors will win? (Source: 29 Marbles) 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1369680 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:26:58 +0100 1369680 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487406&cid=t_104619_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F02%2Fmind-of-masters-intelligence-and.html In a recent study of tournament chess players, scientists found that high intelligence and expertise (ELO ranking) had different contributions to brain activation, although both increased speed and performance on chess-related reasoning tasks. High IQ also seemed to confer an additional advantage...the higher the IQ, the more brain efficient, so EEG event-related desynchronisations suggested they also didn't have to work as hard to get correct answers.Superior performance and neural efficiency: impact of intelligence and expertise pdfTechnorati tags: intelligence, IQ, psychology, brain, science, gifted, education, chess, expertiseEide Neurolearning Blog (Source: Eide Neurolearning Blog) Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487406 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:07:00 +0100 487406 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=485997&cid=t_104619_132_f&fid=35018&url=http%3A%2F%2Femelamud.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F11%2Ffritz-vs-kramnik_25.html This day has been in making for a long time, one flesh and blood human vs notebook with 4 processors. it can't be that hard, it is not like this thing can calculated 20 moves ahead in .1 second. This is what Kramnik said about it “Of course, this computing monster keeps getting better year by year,month by month, day by day: My opponent will be incredibly strong. ButI think I can still beat it. Whenever I can fight, I’m extremelymotivated. After all, I might be the last human being to be able todefeat this machine. My team and I will be expending all our efforts tocut this so-called artificial intelligence down to size.”You go dude! All you have to do is increase temperature in the room, so that this silicon lifeform starts to overheat and starts making all sort of random errors. Or ... Eugene Melamud's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=485997 Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:36:00 +0100 485997