Chess vs IQ

I agree to an extent, but keep in mind that many, if not all of the top players have IQs of 175+ landing them 15 points above the super-genius category, so I do think there is a correlation.>>

No way is 160 "super genius". It's at the bottom end of the "very bright spectrum".

That hasn't been complied by geniuses, then. A lot of people with IQs around 130 to 135 think they're really bright but it's a big fish, small pond thing, so they think they're really bright and they latch onto the idea that genius starts at 140, which has, I suppose, been propagated by egalitarians!

The thing is, just because someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Of course, I'm included. The World is full of people making claims and trying to stake out some territory on a "professional" basis. You should be sceptical, especially when the claims really defy common sense. 140 is simply too common an IQ level to be "genius", which is reserved for something much more special. I'm even talking about a different way of thinking. Much faster, much more accurate. Imagine a person who can work something out in three minutes using sparse evidence that it might take a team of scientists three years to discover. That's what genius is. Not the plodding efforts of the scientists, who will have IQs most probably in the 130 to 145 range.

ELO=IQ x 10, still nothing much with an IQ of 135+

Incidentally, 99.997% means three in 100,000. If the population of the UK is 60 millions, that means there's less than two thousand people with IQs of 160 or more, based on the figures you gave me. I would, at a guess, think those figures are on the generous side but I might be wrong, based on the memory I have of 170 IQ corresponding to 0.00001 of a population. Still, there's bound to be variation in the results achieved by different methods or samples.

The population of the USA is about 330 millions so, again based on the figures you gave, it corresponds to 10,000 people in the USA with IQs of 160 or more.

Sticking with an assessment that "160 is the beginning of the very bright range", I'm prepared to believe that genius or near genius starts at 160. Maybe 155, even, although Mensa measured my wife at 156, apparently. She's certainly very bright. Maybe she is a genius, in a way. She's an extremely talented psychotherapist. But a genius?

Whatever. But I would caution against latching onto figures that **you might want to believe** because there will be very many conflicting opinions and figures out there.

Incidentally, 99.997% means three in 100,000. If the population of the UK is 60 millions, that means there's less than two thousand people with IQs of 160 or more, based on the figures you gave me. I would, at a guess, think those figures are on the generous side but I might be wrong, based on the memory I have of 170 IQ corresponding to 0.00001 of a population. Still, there's bound to be variation in the results achieved by different methods or samples.

The population of the USA is about 330 millions so, again based on the figures you gave, it corresponds to 10,000 people in the USA with IQs of 160 or more.

Sticking with an assessment that "160 is the beginning of the very bright range", I'm prepared to believe that genius or near genius starts at 160. Maybe 155, even, although Mensa measured my wife at 156, apparently. She's certainly very bright. Maybe she is a genius, in a way. She's an extremely talented psychotherapist. But a genius?

Whatever. But I would caution against latching onto figures that **you might want to believe** because there will be very many conflicting opinions and figures out there.

Hello everyone,

I was curious about what the correlation between Chess and IQ was, so I decided to make this thread. If you are willing to, it would be helpful if you could post your IQ ONLY if tested by a psychologist, (No results from online tests, etc.), your rating for the time control which you play play most, (No variants), and how long you have been playing, (Amount of years + Left-over amount of months. If you are comfortable, age would be helpful, but not required.

If I get enough requests, I will post another thread sharing the data.

Thankyou!

Do you believe that Albert Einstein is a super-genius. The obvious answer is yes, right? He changed the world with his work in scientific fields, and his quadratic equations are used in scientific fields daily, and everybody has heard about his famous e=mc2. His IQ was 160, so according to you, he was a "moderately bright person". I don't think that's a fair assessment.

Hey,

I like a lot your idea and I think it is very interesting. I think I can help you. At the high school I was very bored and all was very easy for me, so a psychologist made me a IQ test. At the end of all the tests, the result was an IQ of 135. Also, I have been playing chess since I was 5 year old. So I have been playing chess for the last 9 years (Because I have 14), but I have to confess that in the last few year I didn't play as much as I would like. So I expect that this information can help you. 

I’ll give you the data for me:118 IQ, 750 blitz, 2 years 6 months if counting OTB, 6 months with chess.com.

I believe the WAIS

Very interesting.