Russia’s chess grandmaster Boris Spassky became a household name in the West during his encounter with America’s Bobby Fischer in the 1972 “Match of the Century” World Championship contest. I can ...

Josef Martin Unterrainer, Christoph Philipp Kaller, Rainer Leonhart and Benjamin Rahm In a previous study (Unterrainer, Kaller, Halsband, and Rahm, 2006), chess players outperformed non-chess players ...