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**Chess-King** · 11-10-2008, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by Igor Goldenberg

It is hard to measure talent. IMHO, it's how they see and feel the board. Talented child can visualise the board without seeing it.
For example, ask him to close his eyes and tell all the squares on e1-a5 diagonal (or something similar). Check how easy or difficult it is.

Of course, it's not exhaustive

I thought measuring talent would have been easy enough. In Camelot we measure a youngster's talent based his over the board results. If he wins a lot, then he has talent. But if youngsters lose a lot, then we encourage them to take up farming!

11-10-2008, 01:31 PM	#6 (permalink)
Chess-King Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 17	Originally Posted by Igor Goldenberg It is hard to measure talent. IMHO, it's how they see and feel the board. Talented child can visualise the board without seeing it. For example, ask him to close his eyes and tell all the squares on e1-a5 diagonal (or something similar). Check how easy or difficult it is. Of course, it's not exhaustive I thought measuring talent would have been easy enough. In Camelot we measure a youngster's talent based his over the board results. If he wins a lot, then he has talent. But if youngsters lose a lot, then we encourage them to take up farming!