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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Men consistently outperform women on spatial tasks, including mental rotation, which is the ability to identify how a 3-D object would appear if rotated in space. Now, a University of Iowa study shows a connection between this sex-linked ability and the structure of the parietal lobe, the brain region that controls this type of skill."

An ability that would seem very useful in chess.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217124430.htm[/quote]

Te spatial rotation test is a topic which has been used to justify gender differences since at least the 80s. It mainly has to do with very reaction time-sensitive actions.  It has nothing to do with what chess masters do. While you might think that rotation helps you understand all of the rook's moves, a chess master instantly sees all of those positions by rote memory.  They do not stare at the board and mentally trace the possible paths of individual pieces like beginners do. They operate strategically and based on a large mental database of games and proven attacks or defenses.

As for the main board, there is no global rotation of attacks and defense, because the board is anchored in space by the starting positions of white and black.

By analogy you could imagine a fighter pilot needs fast spatial rotation, but their general does not.[/quote]

Womansplaining[/quote]
I am a man, and I am familiar with the research in question.  I studied this in university.[/quote]

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