[lbo-talk] Chess, Advertising and Human "Intelligence"

[John Thornton]

Chess is an extremely specialized "skill" applicable primarily to playing 
chess.. Playing chess should take a vast "intelligence" applicable to a 
great many things. We run into the problem of lacking not only a specific 
definition of intelligence but not really even having much of a vague 
definition either.

John Thornton


>but chess is an extremely narrow and specialized intelligence, and 
>probably not implementable in many human activities except chess.
>
>Carrol