visula spatial intelligence

The passage explains how people with high visual-spatial intelligence are privileged, especially in playing games. The lecture elaborates the idea by explaining how chess players benefit from high visual-spatial intelligence. Firstly, it is mentioned in the passage that the superior visual sense of such people help them to recognize the patterns immediately. A chess player also keep the image of the chessboard and the positions of all pieces in mind. By rebuilding the board in their mind, they extract the pattern and decide to make the best move. Secondly, the passage says that high visual-spatial intelligence leads to several related capacities, especially in creating various mental images of complex objects. The best example of such capacity is shown in blind-folded chess playing. In that case, the player cannot see the boards. However, by creating the images of the pieces of chess board, the player can simultaneously play with more than one opponent. Finally, it is noted that the powerful visual imagination also makes the people capable of predicting patterns of reasoning. This is why a chess player can easily recognize the character of a specific play, finding out the opponent’s plan, and take the best strategy to respond properly. The lecture give a perfect example of a game to show why people with high visual-spatial Intelligence are good at playing games and enjoy them a lot.