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I’m not sure about the quality of my linked article but it seems like that humans becoming good at chess does not noticeably improve their other skills. They wi

• YeGoblynQueenne 8y ago
  Learning chess will make you better at other board games, even if it doesn't improve, say, your maths or language skills. For instance, chess may teach you lessons about sacrificing assets to earn a reward later on, or lessons about material advantage, tempo, controlling the board and so on, that can be applied to many different games. That counts as transfer learning and it is something that statistical machine learning cannot do at all, basically (i.e. a new model has to be trained from scratch for each different game). As an aside- you might argue that there are common elements of board games' design that make it easier to reuse knowledge. However, statistical machine learning systems can still not transfer knowledge of one game to others, even given the common design elements that should make it easier.