Right vs Left handed chess players (IM and GM)

vb4 · Post by **vb4** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:04 pm

Is anyone out here aware of where I can get this kind of information? Perhaps somebody out here already has it! I would like to get a list of rated chess players (IM and GM preferably) and whether they are left handed or right handed. Can someone out here help me out?

Thanks,

Les

fern · Post by **fern** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:30 pm

and what about both-hands people?
I use both to anything with almost equal proficiency. Maybe because of that I am a so lousy chess player

Fern

vb4 · Post by **vb4** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:20 am

I will take even that data <s>! Can't have enough of it. Any ideas as to how I can get this info?

Les

peter · Post by **peter** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:27 am

Hi!
Just tried handedness AND chess with Google, seem good key words to look for.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5147
was one of the first results, this article even made it to PubMed citations btw.
Good luck for your research

towforce · Post by **towforce** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:15 am

peter wrote:http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5147

Here's the answer then:

pocopito · Post by **pocopito** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:31 am

So next improvement in chess programming should be not right handed engines!?

Terry McCracken · Post by **Terry McCracken** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:32 am

towforce wrote:
peter wrote:http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5147
Here's the answer then:

It has little bearing on how well left-handed or ambidextrous people play chess. The study didn't find anything in that part of the survey that determines chess ability Most top GMs are right-handed. List world champions who were left-handed or ambidextrous.

The graph out of context is misleading.

towforce · Post by **towforce** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:46 am

Terry McCracken wrote:It has little bearing on how well left-handed or ambidextrous people play chess.

It's worse than that even: given the stated hypothesis about right-brained people having more natural chess brains, the study says NOTHING WHATSOEVER about the level of chess creativity that the left handed people have!

It would also be nice to know if, as in other fields, creative types first come up with the ideas - but it's the plodders who go on to perfect them, and whether this correlates with handedness.

There's clearly an opportunity here for somebody to do a better study.

towforce · Post by **towforce** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:04 am

fern wrote:and what about both-hands people? I use both to anything with almost equal proficiency. Maybe because of that I am a so lousy chess player...

The ambidextrous seem to have the increased memory, but reduced creativity and problem solving ability, of the right handed:

. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 10626.html .

fern · Post by **fern** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:05 pm

Hey man, I am very high IQ score guy, so do not even talk of "reduced" etc... And I am a known very creative writer and journalist.

...And my memory is just average.

tell those guys to try again

fern

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