Re: anyone know of research on the benefits of playing go?

          "Though I am not an academic...<blah blah blah> "

Oh brother! Here is a perfect example of someone in major denial.

So his ego is not bruised I'm sure this comment will get a response
from jb with more of the same "tautology" that he claims is not his
intention.

** tau·tol·o·gy (tô-tŏlə-jē)
1.
a. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words;
redundancy.
b. An instance of such repetition.

2.An empty or vacuous statement composed of simpler statements in a
fashion that makes it logically true whether the simpler statements
are factually true or false; for example, the statement "Either it
will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow."
.