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”.
Profile
Seven chapters
Origins
How strategic talent was named, dated and argued — a history of claims, not a verdict on a child.
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Science
Findings, mechanisms and debates around strategic talent, with evidence sized honestly.
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Signs
How strategic talent is noticed without over-labelling — cues, tests and false positives.
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Develop
Growing strategic talent as a system of catalysts, windows and supports — educational, not diagnostic.
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Practice
Designed methods for strategic talent — steps, drills and pitfalls, not a promise.
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Exemplars
Historical people in the orbit of strategic talent — a set, not a ranking.
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Myths
Misconceptions and real systems around strategic talent, across more than three continents.
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