If You're A Chess Player, You're Probably Smarter Than Others. Is this, TRUE?

people who are VERY GOOD at chess appear to be smarter than others, but aybe the opposite

Yes, I completely agree with you here. And my point is that, given that everything else is equal, more intelligent person would do better in chess then someone less intelligent. But in real life everything is rearly equal and actuall work put in to a skill is often better then just being smart.

Good for you, keep all the rain. I need sunshine. But… we take what we’re given and make the best of it. Keep your cap and cover close! 

Done.

Different types of intelligence, utilized in different ways. Some types of intelligence show up in chess, but there's also poetry, literature... Is Carlsen more intelligent than Shakespeare? Mozart? Newton? Alain Ducasse? Marie Curie? Nah... 

 Seems like there are different types of intelligence, and while being a decent player likely makes you intelligent, it doesn't make you smarter than others, some of whom almost certainly would be fantastic at chess if they weren't more interested in medicine, coding, etc. 

What a broad prospective. Keep them coming. A lot of wisdom shining through. : )))

Captain Haddock!!!!

His/her rating is irrelevant…

No

mikekelcey 
#85
No

Agreed

No. His/her is correct. It’s a singular noun, so ‘their’ would be incorrect.

no, "their" can also be used to describe someone whose gender is unknown

Yes, but technically it is incorrect.

Did your read what was Googled?

‘Originally Answered: Is it correct to use “their” instead of “his or her”? If you have a singular subject, such as “someone,” then, technically, it's correct only to use the singular (his or her). However, people break this rule very often, so it has become prevalent to use the plural pronoun, and few people notice.’

yeah but "their" has already become so commonly used that it's technically fine to use it

He started it by saying ‘their’ was more correct lol. ‘Their’ is still incorrect, technically. That’s like saying if lots of people murder each other it means murder is okay.

I would suspect that Chess does have a slight correlation with intelligence. It requires mental abilities to play, and thus it has more appeal to intelligent people. People who are not very intelligent would content themselves with other games. But the correlation is only small, because there are so many other things for people, even intelligent people, to do.

This is a very controversial subject.

50 years ago, you would have been simply wrong. "His" would have been correct English, but "His or her" or a form like "His/her" would also have been correct. "Their" would simply have been wrong, if it referred to a singular noun. Period.

However, the English language is a human construct; and, not only that, it is a folk construct. It isn't something that began to be used after a standards committee had hammered down the specifications for it.

Thus, it is generally accepted even in the English departments of accredited Universities that grammar, properly so-called, should be descriptive rather than prescriptive. Of course, that idea first was accepted, for very legitimate reasons, in linguistics departments.

As well, it is commonly known that the Arts departments of Universities are home to a student population that is more... socially progressive... than society at large.

The faculty has followed the student body. And, thus, today's professors of the English language, who presumably are to be regarded as the arbiters of English grammar, have gone all the way back to Shakespeare to point out that, at least at one time, one could use a plural pronoun with a singular noun, and the importance of equality for women outweighs that of continuing a tradition of grammatical correctness that is of relatively recent origin.

So you actually could say that "their" is (today) grammatically correct, even if, say, the Texas department of textbooks would not agree with you.