CHESMAYNE

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Talent 

A special natural ability or aptitude - a capacity for achievement or success - a power of mind considered as committed to one for use and improvement - inclination or disposition - gifted.   Goethe: “talent grows in peace, character in the current of affairs”.   The essential ability of a chess player is an exceptionally high level of visual and spatial intelligence, which is traced to the left-hand side of the human brain.   Normal intelligence comes from the right-side of the brain.   A top flight player will have built up a mental encyclopedia containing 50,000+ chess patterns.   However, courage and ‘fighting spirit’ are also essential.   ‘The Admirable Crichton’: one distinguished by all-round talents.   The ‘Admirable Doctor’: Roger Bacon. 

                                                              Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life”.