Answer a Question with a Question...

[StarSong]

Like most experts, wouldn't it be likely that chess masters have innate ability that they honed with hundreds of hours of studying plus the experience of thousands of games?

 

[Kaila]

How would we know?

 

[Patch]

Like most experts, wouldn't it be likely that chess masters have innate ability that they honed with hundreds of hours of studying plus the experience of thousands of games?

After reading numerous opinions from chess experts, would you believe some feel there IS luck involved... mainly having to do with who draws which color and which competitor you draw, as some competitors are a better fit for your style of play than others??

 

[StarSong]

I would believe that some do feel there is luck involved, but I'd imagine that the better the player the less he/she believes luck is a factor, wouldn't you?

 

[Patch]

Do you understand I play golf every day and, matched with a player of equal handicap, we both rely on the occasional bounce of the golf ball to either give us an edge or give us heartburn?? :>)

 

[Kaila]

Skills for games and sports, and activities,
usually gradually improve over time with repeated practice;
Does luck improve as well?

 

[Tish]

Can I use loaded dice?

 

[SetWave]

Will they explode???

 

[Kaila]

What are they loaded with? Popcorn? Rocks? Jumping beans?

 

[StarSong]

Do you remember getting jumping beans as a kid?

 

[Kaila]

Should they have been called something else, rather than Jumping beans?

 

[StarSong]

Like maybe "beans with little worms in them that start moving around when held in a warm hand"?

 

[Kaila]

Right; Would anyone have wanted them and been fascinated, then?

 

[StarSong]

Did you never see these or have any? (It wasn't an unusual souvenir from Mexico back in the 60s.)

 

[Kaila]

Did my questions make it seem like I hadn't?

(I did, and I did know they are what you said they are, but I did not know they were from Central or South America, Did others know that, back in the 60's? )

 

[StarSong]

I believe they knew they came from Mexico (no idea if South or Central America have them), particularly because they were generally known as "Mexican Jumping Beans." Isn't that the term you recall?

 

[Kaila]

I totally do not recall that part;
Isn't it interesting, which small facts and details, about many topics, do get into each of our long-term memories?

 

[StarSong]

Yes, don't you find that to be true even among siblings and very long term friends?

 

[Kaila]

Have you asked them about jumping beans recently?

 

[StarSong]

LOL - I don't believe I've thought about jumping beans in 30 years!

Do you sometimes talk to someone you grew up with and find the other person has nearly forgotten an incident that was well impressed in your memory?

 

[Kaila]

If you do and you tell them something about it, do they then remember additional parts of it ?

 

[Tish]

Should they remember it, if they have forgotten about it?

 

[StarSong]

Yes, it's usually a "OMG - now that you talk about it, it's all coming back to me now" kind of moment.

Don't you often find that it's less that we've forgotten these things entirely and more that we haven't pulled on particular memory strings in a very long time?

 

[Kaila]

How long and stretched out over time, can those strings become?

 

[StarSong]

Mine stretch back to about age 7. How about yours?