I consider it prudent : Not to accept any number as determining in any case.(as measure of real inteligence)
Relationship between Chess rating and I.Q?
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Yes fair enough!
Feb 15, 2025
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I think that there's a connection, but more so in the sense of a relationship between a brother and sister rather than mother and son (metaphorically speaking). In other words, their related, but through having a common cause, not one causing the other.
Nearly 17 years now!
As GM Hikaru Nakamura points out, he has an IQ of 107.
He is also clearly not a geek either.
So yes there is no relation between chess rating and intelligence. The main property you need is endurance. You need to be able to spent those 50,000 hours that people need to perfect a trade on chess, and you need to do it early, because later it will be just too late.
You're saying that the rest of us have to accept Hikaru's statement as true?
Why, when it seems safe to assume that it isn't true?