{"id":492,"date":"2026-05-09T10:23:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitropa.chess.at\/?p=492"},"modified":"2026-05-09T10:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:23:18","slug":"international-research-project-on-the-development-of-chess-expertise-participants-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitropa.chess.at\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"International Research Project on the Development of Chess Expertise \u2013 Participants Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The University of Graz, in collaboration with Northumbria University (UK) and the University of Sheffield (UK), is conducting an international research project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim of this project is to gain new insights into the factors that contribute to a successful chess career. In addition to cognitive abilities (such as spatial reasoning), we are also examining emotional competencies, motivation, personality, and various training activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of this project, we invite all interested club and tournament chess players to participate in an online survey, which takes approximately 35 to 45 minutes to complete and is available in several languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon request, all participants will receive individualized feedback on their results in comparison with other international chess players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about the project and the link to participate in the online survey:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/chess-study.uni-graz.at\/en\">Chess Study \u2013 University of Graz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Graz, in collaboration with Northumbria University (UK) and the University of Sheffield (UK), is conducting an international research project. The aim of this project is to gain new insights into the factors that contribute to a successful chess career. In addition to cognitive abilities (such as spatial reasoning), we are also examining emotional competencies, motivation, personality, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mca-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitropa.chess.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitropa.chess.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitropa.chess.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitropa.chess.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitropa.chess.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mitropa.chess.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/mitropa.chess.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitropa.chess.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitropa.chess.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitropa.chess.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitropa.chess.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}