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Something in the air.

Here’s a new excuse for blundering your queen: MIT researchers found that chess players perform worse when the air quality is bad.found that the amount of fine particulate matter in the air directly correlates to chess performance. Even a modest increase of air pollution results in a 2.1 percent increase in the probability that players make a mistake. There’s also an increase of 10.8 percent in the magnitude of the mistakes—which means that they’re more costly for players.

They found that the concentration of fine particulate matter ranged from 14 to 70 micrograms per cubic meter of air—which is roughly equivalent to levels found in the streets of U.S. cities.

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