Paauglių šachmatininkų (11–15 metų) neverbalinio kūrybinio mąstymo ir intelekto kaita bei sąsajos
Adolescence Chess Player’s (11–15 ) Non-verbal Creative Thinking and Intellect

Summary/Abstract: Creativity and creative thinking is multidimensional and still not completely understood by psychologists. Through chess, pupils learn to invent creative solutions to problems. Chess can strengthen problem-solving skills, foster critical, creative and original thinking, demonstrate the importance of flexible planning, concentration and the consequences of decisions. The aim of the investigation was to analyze young chess player’s creative thinking in different age, their achievement and intelligence. E. P. Torrance test of creative thinking (TTCT, 1974) was used as the main evaluation tool. The scoring was as follows: ü Fluency by the number of interpretable, meaningful, and relevant responses to the stimulus, ü Flexibility by the variety of categories of relevant responses, ü Originality by responses which are unexpected, unusual, unique or statistically rare, ü Elaboration by the addition of pertinent details. 56 children of chess school and 60 – as control group in Vilnius were investigated using this method. The main result: 1. There is notised statisticaly important increase of indexes of nonverbal creative thinking: fluency and originality among adolescence chess players in the period of two years (2006 and 2007). 2. Correlation have been found between the intelligence (D. Raven) and creative thinking (E. P. Torrance) in the construct of elaboration (r = 0,307; p = 0,025). Research results show that chess games develop cognitive abilities among children, creative divergent thinking - one of them.

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