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Re:Life cycle patterns of cognitive performance over the lon... by engineer_22 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:54AM (#24848451)
Tl;dr:

Chess players peak around age 35.

People are getting better at chess from generation to generation.

The generational gap is much larger than the young vs old gap.

EDIT: The method in the article measures performance based on deviation from best chess move as calculated by a computer.

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Re:Life cycle patterns of cognitive performance over the lon... by tonitosou on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:41AM (#24848906)
it is just because knowledge is available and young ones have more time to learn from the past.
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