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I don't think that's too surprising, I doubt you can play chess at a high level with early stages of Alzheimer's.
by lenzm 5y ago
I don't think that's too surprising, I doubt you can play chess at a high level with early stages of Alzheimer's.
- kevinventullo 5y agoI think what they meant was that they’d never heard of someone who was at any point in time a high level chess player eventually succumbing to Alzheimer’s.
- forty 5y agoI'm not sure what to conclude of that though. Does it mean that playing high level chess lower risks of contracting Alzheimer's or does it mean that people with low Alzheimer's risks have higher chance to become high level chess players?
- thaumasiotes 5y agoIt might also mean that high-level chess players contract Alzheimer's at the normal rate, but it goes undiagnosed because their lower functioning still seems fine to everyone else.
- spoonjim 5y agoOr, high level chess players identify so strongly with their intellect that in the face of dementia they retreat into isolation (or even suicide) where they don’t become a data point. Correlations can come from anywhere.
- tialaramex 5y agoWe know a bunch of other intellectual capabilities have mitigating effects on mental decline, presumably because they exercise brain plasticity which will then later be called into play as things fail. For example being multi-lingual is reported to help.
- raxxorrax 5y agoOr he simply forgot.