"It’s as if Garry Kasparov had to plot a pawnless endgame while simultaneously harvesting minerals,..."

“It’s as if Garry Kasparov had to plot a pawnless endgame while simultaneously harvesting minerals, building fuel extractors, and searching in vain for Spassky’s queen. Academic researchers now use StarCraft II—the “drosophila” of brain science, as one paper suggested—when studying people who expertly perform cognitively complex tasks. Chess may soon be eclipsed as the standard-bearer of competitive I.Q.”

- The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete

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