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THE REAL ROLE OF INNATE CHARACTERISTICS The results from the chess study provide a crucial insight into the interplay between "talent" and practice in the development of various skills. While people with certain innate characteristics -- IQ, in the case of the chess study -- may have an advantage when first learning a skill, that advantage gets smaller over time, and eventually the amount and the quality of practice take on a much larger role in determining how skilled a person becomes.