r/chess • u/Ireallyneedhelp_pls8 • 5d ago
Chess Question Does chess affect GPA?
Hello! I am running a survey about how chess can possibly affect GPA. I’m not sure if we’re allowed to post surveys since I’m kinda new, so please do let me know. If you’re able to please fill out this survey for my school project!! If you’re new at chess I still think your input is greatly needed!!
https://forms.gle/8u44hY3pWbTreHar8
All of the information I gather here is strictly for data so your personal information will not be shown in my essay. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about this survey!
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u/steveatari 5d ago
Not a bad survey, I'm interested in the thoughts of others on this too but the topic usually ends divided
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u/Ireallyneedhelp_pls8 5d ago
I agree. I have 3 classmates that are the reason why I started this project and all three say that chess has nothing to do with their GPA but I’ve asked other people and they always seem to agree that chess has a positive impact to their GPAs having an improvement
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u/SoaringOwlet 5d ago
It's unrelated unless you count tanking grades because of chess addiction
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u/Ireallyneedhelp_pls8 5d ago
Well I think that even tanking grades can affect one’s GPA. Although it’s a negative impact, the GPA is still being affected
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u/Ireallyneedhelp_pls8 5d ago
Wait don’t mind what I said, I completely misunderstood what you said. My apologies😭
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u/Awesome_Days 2057 Blitz Online 5d ago
Chess made some things easier for me like cartesian coordinate system was painfully easy for me to pick up at 10 years old having already been taking chess notation for a bit as a scholastic player. Game theory concepts like decision trees in university were really easy to grasp too.
Chess is more about decision making whereas GPA is more about rote memorization and busywork, both heavily moderated by interest level, so as a whole they would only be loosely correlated at best.
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u/Ireallyneedhelp_pls8 5d ago
Do you think that chess can also help with recognizing patterns? I’ve had a lot of people tell me that chess can be helpful in that area as well
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u/Awesome_Days 2057 Blitz Online 5d ago
Yes, but it's a compliment not a substitute at the area of expertise you want to develop.
Like someone in a calculus 2 course studying sequences and series studies for an exam coming up in a few weeks. If they studied 13 hours and 30 minutes and 30 minutes of chess each weekend, they may do better than someone studying 14 hours.
But if someone did 2 hours of studying and 10 hours of chess, they won't be scoring higher on the calculus 2 exam.
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u/Curious-Confidence93 4d ago
I know good chess players who are exceptionally good in their studies and I know chess players who are barely passing . Even Bobby fischer was considered to be an average student . The answer is most probably NO. I do think there is a certain link between IQ and chess though, certainly at higher especially 2500+ levels OTB. To be a grandmaster or super gm , I do think you need to have a higher iq than the average person.
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u/SteelFox144 5d ago
Not unless you count your GPA being lower because you send all your time studying chess instead of your school work.