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Strategic talent in 2014: Macnamara games band

The log for Strategic talent in 2014 is the line “Macnamara games band.” The figure written with it is 26. Do not convert that figure into a group intelligence score or an inborn grade. The line says who repeated which task. No. Pathways and evidence stay individual. Scores are browsing aids — never group biological or racial ranks.

Search, planning and opponent minds — chess and go as research, not a mystical IQ halo. Strategic talent is skill in choosing under an opponent or a future — search, evaluation, bluff, resource, time. Chess psychology (de Groot, Chase and Simon, later Ericsson and Gobet) made expertise a laboratory. Macnamara’s 2014 games band put deliberate practice at about 26% of variance — the highest of their domain bands, still a minority. Judit Polgár’s career was a family experiment against “no women at the top” folklore.

Go, war colleges and entrepreneurial strategy share mechanisms and do not share a single IQ. This page is not a ranking of nations’ “game intelligence”. Strategic talent mapped for mechanisms, locale notes and limits. Strategic talent sits in the mind atlas — mechanisms, locale notes and limits, not slogans.

Adoption and meaning follow schools, clubs and labs as much as peak specs. selection systems without group rankings. conservatories, gyms and classrooms. No population score rankings; no race hierarchies. Editorial scores help browsing; they are not certificates. Links, glossary and adjacent themes around Strategic talent.

Record Strategic talent as 2014, “Macnamara games band,” and 26. The figure is not a group score.2014

Figures to keep

Year of the log
2014
Practice figure
26
Topic
Strategic talent
Log line
Macnamara games band

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