All I want to say is if you are good at chess. Then, congratulations. But you must not assume that you are a good swimmer too if you didn't found out yourself.
Can you be a rubbish chess player and have a really high IQ?
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But you must not give up if it is difficult because there are a lot of reasons involve in our life you cannot identify what is the problem (unless it is obvious) unless, the thing itself is not important. Effort is as valuable as skill itself. Regardless, you must use science of how to study something in particular. Even if they are not good, don't judge their whole individuality for it if they are not doing something wrong.
#21 he said that his IQ is higher than that and that the test in which he got 102 is innacurate
Optimissed wrote:
I don't believe there can be strong chess players with below average intelligence.
Depends on what kind of intelligence we're talking about here. I'm thinking of Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences ...
I've met a few strong chess players who seemed to have difficulties when it came to social (interpersonal) intelligence. Awkwardness or confusion when dealing with basic social cues, difficulties responding to humor and subtext, and so on.
Above average with logical/spacial intelligence, perhaps, but below average when it comes to interpersonal ...
Yes but IQ is also a very poor measure of intelligence. You could be highly intelligent and yet get measured at a low IQ or vice versa. IQ is a total myth.
Something to think about also for this subject is how chimps can outperform humans in some memory/competency tests:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXP8qeFF6A
There are no tricks involved in this, it's not that the chimps were trained and the humans were not or anything like that. Chimps are better at this test, many animals also have absurdly good long-term memories, such as birds on where they've hidden food or migration routes over thousands of miles.
Theories of multiple intelligences are not some feelgood thing, they're objective truth while people who believe in the dogmatic iq view of intelligence after knowing all this are ironically just stupid.
@ChocolateGuysCream defined it best. But to be honest I don't agree on the last part that you don't need to have some kind of special abilities to play the game and be good.