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Does chess make you smart?

YO does chess even make you smart cause i been playing 1 game and i felt nothing.
Playing chess primarily makes you smarter at chess.
@thing567890 You posted your original post, 2 hours ago, from right now. At 2 hours ago, you have played more than one game. Sorry for poking around your history. Wait, is this just a joke intended for laughter? Anyways, ignoring all possibilities, chess does make you smarter.
Yes, i have felt that.i am 29 years old and i have been playing chess on lichess and chess.com for 1.5 years only.
But even then,i have realised it has increased my attentiveness in daily life.
A study, done by Dr. Robert C. Ferguson, showed marked improvement is academic performance, against a control group, of students learning chess.
A study has shown that students who play sports have performed better academically.
A study has shown that students who play an instrument have performed better academically.
A study has shown that encouraging students to perform better caused the student to preform better.

From these studies, it seems that everything except for being in a control group makes you smart.

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