I know who Ganesh is lol. I'm not Indian tho
Extrapolating IQ scores to potential in chess
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Oct 20, 2017
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#44
it's amazing how many people don't know some pretty common knowledge stuff. true I don't know how to change a tire but heck I know where China is. it's true..I asked a couple people and they had no idea where China was....sad
It's possible to be good at chess and not much else (no offence intended, but I've met a few!) but I wouldn't say those people are 'dumb'. More like the 'idiot savants' which are more frequently referred to in fields such as music and mathematics.
Oct 20, 2017
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#46
Optimissed wrote:
lol i did make it kinda confusing. that's cool
P.S. I thought Houston TX is in China myself: it's good to be proved right. Where is Leicester, England though? Never could work that out! 
Good curry there though, AND good Chinese food.
Oct 20, 2017
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#47
Good ol' IQ threads. They never fail to entertain me.
One more little thing, children. Random IQ tests you take on the Internet have no credibility. And the same can be said about your claims of having and IQ higher than [insert a number high enough to brag about]
Oct 20, 2017
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#48
DeirdreSkye wrote:
universityofpawns wrote:
I've never meet a dumb person that was good at chess,
You have never met a dumb person that was good in chess?You are lucky.
I have met several dumb persons that were around 1900 and Simon Williams has met several dumb GMs.
Even Aronian said that it's a myth that GMs are intelligent(he was actually very sarcastic with it).
Chess has a community , and just like every other community it has dumb and smart members.
Usually it's the non experts that have a wrong idea about their hobby or their future profession.If you talk with a student of math he will tell you that you need to be highly intelligent to become math professor.If you talk with a math professor he will tell you it's all about dedication and study and not about intelligence.
Well "dumb"/mentally challenged is in the brain of the beholder....I'm talking about people with an i.q. below average, like 80 or 90 maybe, when I talk to them I just can't even hold a conversation hardly. Of course there are certain people that are mentally challenged, like autistic people that can be quite exceptional at certain endeavors. My very smart scientist friend that worked for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had an autistic boy who could do a 1000 piece puzzle with the picture down and never touch any piece more than once.....but I never did really meet a mentally challenged person that was good at chess...maybe it is in my future though, guess I have not seen everything yet.
Oct 20, 2017
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#49
Lol, I’ve got an IQ of 164.5, both my parents are doctors, I’m Indian and both my parents have and IQ of over 155, I’m 14 but I’ve never bothered to put enough effort to really improve that much in chess. At this point I would say 1300-1400 is a decent rating for the amount of work I’ve put in, but I’m pretty sure that IQ is just a number like these ratings. I don’t get why people get so wound up over stupid things like these. Especially when not too many people here have an IQ to really brag about (maybe 180 or so). This thread is just arguing over something that won’t mean anything to anyone ever.
IQ doesn't measure anything; human intelligence is far from being understood, contrary to chess skill which is perfectly measurable.
For example we know that math skill and chess skill aren't that correlated, you can be very good at one and suck at the other.
Oct 21, 2017
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#51
These threads are always a great place to laugh at socially challenged people boasting about shit that proves nothing
BeepBeepImA747 wrote:
I have an IQ of 178 and my rating is 1200. No correlation at all.
I have an IQ of 472. Because I said so.
Oct 21, 2017
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#53
I think there's roughly a 0% chance every UK police officer has an IQ over 120. While each force has it's own entry requirements, limiting applications to only the top 10% of society would result in way too few officers, no?
Ofgeniuskind wrote:
I have an IQ of 155 and I'm 15, and I have been playing for one day.
There has been research. My IQ is 152 and I am somewhere around 1100-1200 skill level. Kep in mind though in 4 months of play that is really good. I've known people playing 2 years and never got over 800 USCF. So mabye there is. Also Bobby Fischer never took a IQ test I do not think.
@Ofgeniuskind: Um, no. Any old fool can get 1100 in 4 months.
it's ya boy onion
I don't think IQ has anything to do with chess. sure it shows that you're smart in different categories but with chess different variables can happen. such as stress, bad mood, lack of experience can play into it. you could be extremely smart but if you've never played chess or not as much you just won't have a high rating. I would consider myself not the brightest person but I have a USCF number of 835(soon to be) in two years