What's the best way to improve at chess?
This famous study doesn't offer any easy answers, but it does suggest a road to mastery.
A popularization of this study is the basis of one chapter in Malcolm Gladwell's
Outliers: The Story of Success
(which you really should read even if you don't particularly care for chess!).
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The title reminds me of a quote I once read attributed to an eminent musician. It was something like, "I practice eight hours a day for twenty years, and now they call me a genius!" Edison's quote about the causes of success being 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration is also germane.
Love it. Read Outliers and loved that part too. Interesting that the studies date back to Morse code operators in the 1890s.
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