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Re:Judges sentence youth offenders to chess, with promising ... by bitwize on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @12:19PM (#17348022)
It's not that every move has a consequence, it's that chess requires you to think about the long-term ramifications of each move. Petty criminals often become so because they lack the capacity for such long-term thinking ability, or so goes the popular psychological theory, in which case chess may be an easy way to develop it.
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Re:Judges sentence youth offenders to chess, with promising ... by gowld on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @01:31PM (#17348615)
That's a huge leap. Impulse control is an emotional/subconscious behavior, not a failure of planning. People with poor impulse control (most "stupid" criminals), can make plans but fail to execute them. Similar goes for ADD (which affects criminals and non-criminals).
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Re:Judges sentence youth offenders to chess, with promising ... by leblowl on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @12:46PM (#17348236)
Yea I think that's spot on, at least the long-term thinking in chess part. I think that thinking about future actions is more often involved in chess than soccer or many other activities. In soccer the players on the board change positions too quickly to think very far ahead.
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