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Top players in chess can assess their optimal next move without feeling bound by their prior ones. An early chess strategy is abandoned for a better one by top chess players when the changing circumstances on the board warrant it. This trait is healthy and reinforced by economic principles such as the [[Coase theorem]]. Chess reinforces this.
Top players in chess can assess their optimal next move without feeling bound by their prior ones. An early chess strategy is abandoned for a better one by top chess players when the changing circumstances on the board warrant it. This trait is healthy and reinforced by economic principles such as the [[Coase theorem]]. Chess reinforces this.
The author Robert Green wrote about [[Bobby Fischer]] in his book ''Mastery'':
{{Cquote|Throughout history we read of masters in every conceivable form of human endeavor describing a sensation of suddenly possessing heightened intellectual powers. After years of intense absorption in a particular field over a long period of time (well past the 10,000 hour mark), they come to understand all of the parts involved in what they are studying. They reach a point at which these parts become internalized and they are now seeing the whole, the dynamic itself of their particular field. For example, the great chess Master Bobby Fischer spoke of being able to think beyond the various moves of his pieces on the chessboard; after awhile he could see “fields of forces” that allowed him to anticipate the entire direction of the match.<ref>[Greene, Robert. Interviews with the Masters: A Companion to Robert Greene's Mastery (pp. 5-6). Brass Check Marketing. Kindle Edition.</ref>}}
== Mental Acuity ==
== Mental Acuity ==