The role of deliberate practice in chess expertise

By Neil Charness, Michael Tuffiash, R. Krampe, Eyal M. Reingold, Ekaterina E. Vasyukova. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Social Psychology

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Passion and performance attainment in sport (2008, background): “…during one’s free time (and not team practice) as such practice alone has been found to contribute greatly to performance in a variety of activities such as music and chess (Charness et al., 2005; Ericsson et al., 1993), as well as in sports (Helsen et al., 2000; Helsen, Starkes, & Hodges, 1998).”
On the role of passion in performance. (2007, background): “However, scientists conducting expert performance research (e.g., Charness, Tuffiash, Krampe, Reingold, & Vasyukova, 2005; Ericsson & Charness, 1994) suggest that individuals such as those mentioned above, have achieved high levels of performance because they have engaged for several years in high”
The Influence of Experience and Deliberate Practice on the Development of Superior Expert Performance (2006, background): “Serious chess players spend as much as four hours every day engaged in this type of solitary study (Charness et al., 1996, 2005 ; Ericsson et al., 1993 ).”
Giftedness and evidence for reproducibly superior performance: an account based on the expert performance framework (2007, background): “In their research on chess expertise, Charness and colleagues (Charness et al., 1996, 2005) found that the amount of solitary chess study was the best predictor of performance during chess tournaments, and when this factor was statistically controlled, there was only a very small benefit from the…”
Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert? (2014, unknown): “There was a wide range of ages in some of the studies (e.g., Charness et al., 2005), which could represent a confound.”
Does chess need intelligence? – A study with young chess players (2007, background): “This notion is not only shared among lay people but also among some researchers — recently there has been a surge of research based, if not entirely then at least partly, on the assumed link between intelligence and chess (Howard, 1999, 2001, 2005a,b; Irwing & Lynn, 2005). Given this common concepti”