The Comparison of Mental Skills of Elite Male and Female Chess Players inIran

The purpose of this study was to compare the elite male and female chess players, mental skills in Iran. The statistical community of this present study in clude the active and Iranian women and men's chess players (n=867) and 260 woman (n=32) and man (n=228) players were selected as a statistical sample by means of Morgan's chart and taking into account the percent of women and men in the community. The instrument for collecting information is included the Ottawa Mental Skills Assessment Tool (OMSAT-3) under three broader conceptual components: foundation, psychosomatic, and cognitiveskills. The analysis of data were done by descriptive statistics and MANOVA (p<0.05). The results of study show that there are no significant difference in none of the areas of foundation, psychosomatic, and cognitive skills between men and women. Therefore, it seems that sex has no decisive role between man and woman chess players, mental skills with attention to there was no significant difference between man and woman's chess players in the other mental skills (p<0.05) and they were at the samelevel. Perhaps, we can conclude that both groups were likely to use the mental skills but there is no difference between the amounts of their use. So there is no significant difference between groups.

Mentalskills, Chess, Elite players