To be clear, this is not just chess. To quote the paper: "[these] results have been replicated in a variety of educationally relevant fields, including mathema

To be clear, this is not just chess. To quote the paper: "[these] results have been replicated in a variety of educationally relevant fields, including mathematics (Sweller & Cooper, 1985)." Now, I would agree that I wouldn't want to hire a mathematician as a general (on the basis of their being a mathematician), for the same reason that you wouldn't want to hire a chess player as a general (on the basis of their being a chess player). I just want to emphasize that this applies to math too.