The study was published online August 1, 2006, in the journal Evolutionary Psychology. We suspect that this was crucial in human evolution." "But our results imply that natural selection may favor a general type of intelligence in some circumstances. Deaner, Ph.D., who led the study as part of his doctoral dissertation. I doubt this test can improve your mouse aiming and clicking quality, but who knows? One of the fastest clicking chess grandmasters in the world, Andrew Tang a.k.a, "Pengiungim1", recently made a YouTube video on how skilled he is with a similar-looking game called AimBooster."It's clear that some species can and do develop enhanced abilities for solving particular problems," said Robert O. Talking about misclicking, here is another test to prevent it from happening: This is a nice feature, because you tend to “misclick” pretty often if you’re in a hurry! If you click on three wrong squares, you lose. The website was kind enough to add some tolerance to mistakes. I would love to see how titled chess players perform in this test. Once this level is reached, it gets pretty rough. I am a patzer but was able to move up to level 15 after a couple of tries nonetheless. It even has squared shapes to be remembered, like the chessboard we are so familiar with. This is the test I was referring to earlier. With this in the back of our head, we perform better and achieve stronger results than normal, in my opinion. Not only a failure, but as the test already states, we might be dumber than a chimpanzee. So now we are aware of the fact that any result under nine points is considered a failure. If you pass a level, the number increases. This test is a variant of that concept, that gets increasingly difficult every turn, starting at 4 digits, and adding one every turn. In the study, the chimps consistently outperformed humans, and some chimps were able to remember 9 digits over 90% of the time. This is a test of working memory, made famous by a study that found that chimpanzees consistently outperform humans on this task. I believe that chess players have an easier time with this test than the average human (or chimpanzee).Ī little mind trick is included, from a psychological perspective, when you read the text next to the game on the website: The chimpanzee test uses the so called “working memory”, a mix of pattern and numerical sequence recognition. The test is not new and has been around for a while already.Ĭhimpanzee Ai, doing some tests on the computer in the year 2000! What could this test be about? How smart are chimpanzees? Could I be dumber than a chimpanzee? How serious should I take all of this? The title of the video is provoking and has clickbait potential (the title isn’t “Are you smarter than a chimp?” any more, I wonder why. Maybe the word “chimp” is considered offensive?).Īnyway, every human wants to be smarter than a chimpanzee. You don't have to watch this video to understand the purpose of this article The idea for this whole article was born when I was watching the newest video of the most famous YouTuber out there - Pewdiepie. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > The ultimate chess experience every day, Pla圜 welcomes 20,000 chess players from all around the world – from beginner to grandmaster.Memorize it easily move by move by playing against the variation trainer. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Learn openings the right way! Build and maintain your repertoire.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Real Fun against a Chess Program! Play, analyze and train online against Fritz.Top authors like Daniel King, Lawrence Trent and Rustam Kasimdzhanov Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Thousands of hours of high class video training.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Sac, sac, mate! Solve tactical positions of your playing strength.Store your games, training material and opening repertoire in the cloud. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > My Games – Access your games from everywhere.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > 8 million games online! Updated weekly, our definitive database has all the latest games.
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