Strategic talent in 1946: de Groot’s Thought and Choice in Chess

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. Same atlas neighbourhood as Strategic talent (mind).