Do chess and maths have anything in common?

Question

just wondering cause it came across my mind just now

Answer 1

The mental skills used in the game of chess involve inductive and deductive reasoning. A good or progressing chess enthusiast will also incorporate memory (ie pattern recognition, and "what if"scenarios, most often associated with Algebra. Playing chess on a regular, basis, or becoming well pracitced in Mathamatics, will aid your chess game. Here I refer to the mental exercises needed for each. Yes, they are mutually benificial to each other.

Chess,also involves the study of Algorithms,a series of which can actuallyplay an efficient gameof chess. If is said that here are between 10 to the 43rd power and 10 to the 50th power variations of legal chess moves. A "GameTree",often usedin creating chess Algorithms, chess computer code, for computerized versions such as "Deep Blue" as played by notable champions throughout the past,was calcualtedtocontain 10 to the 120th power.

"Garry Kasparov, then ranked number one in the world, played a six-game match against IBM's chess computer Deep Blue in February 1996".as per Wipkipedia entry. Check it out for yourself. It is called the game of Kings for a reason. Next tochess, backgammon,is considered,the next oldest game in recorded history.

Alfred Binent,of the IQ Test, fame,indicated that knowledge(specifically memory), rather than ability to visualize positions, was ateh core of most notable chess champians.

Answer 2

I agree with Opinionated Kitten. He actually got my rating vote. Yes Chess has a lot in common with maths. Especially with the calculation. But, this is where it ends.

Chess requires a plyer to develop lots of logical expressions. Where as a maths calculation appears static in the sense that it will always take a familiar route to its conclusion, a chess challenge does not necessarily do so. Instead, every move made by you or your opponent can substantially alter this route. And you can have as many as twenty options to take at each moment you need to move.

In turn, you will offer your opponent probably as many as thirty moves too. So, you need a great sense of logic to think ahead of your opponents anticipated response variations.

Yes, chess has commonalities with maths, but I find it has closer relations with logical analysis.

Answer 3

Well chess and math involve the same brain processes and strategies (hence many math geniuses being very good at chess) and for this reason practicing playing chess has been shown to improve math scores. However they don't DIRECTLY have anything to do with each other as far as needing to to use complex mathematics to play the game if that was what you are wondering. But it does REALLY help you to play better chess if you are good at mathematical thinking ( and vice versa)

Answer 4

Good math skills are useful to a chess player, but they won't take him/her all the way. The kind of rigorous structure found in math sometimes applies well to chess. Certain combinations can be reduced to mathematical calculations.
But a chess player needs much more: Intuition, spatial reasoning, experience, pattern recognition and logic all come into play.

Answer 5

yes. chess involves alot of calculating just like math.
here's a math question: how many squares are on a
chess board?

you have to count the small squares but also the big ones that
you can make.

the question is just an example of how chess is involved in
math. the answer is like 260 or somethin.

Answer 6

Mathematics is the study of the properties of logical systems. The rules of chess form a particular logical system. So technically chess would fall within the domain of mathematics.

Answer 7

Yes, both of them involve reasoning, and you have to take into account the "value" of the pieces, when you are changing them (in order to make comparisons, for instance, a pawn = 1, a bishop =3, then 1 bishop equals 3 pawns). You have to take into account the position, too, of course.

Answer 8

Yes they do its really similar because you have to think of mostly math and also have to work your brain.. its really hard to explain.

Answer 9

I think so... They both involve using this thing they call a brain... Know where I could get one?

Answer 10

Yes, alot of thinking and calculating!