Relationship between Chess rating and I.Q?

RACE CODE CHESS #RaceCodeChess is attracting the high IQ people. We saw this last Sunday at the first event.

 

It depends what you mean by "good rating" in blitz.

I think 2500+ qualifies as a "good" blitz rating. And the majority of 2500+ online blitz players are also experts, or titled masters, in OTB classical chess.

So there's certainly some correlation.

    Yes, strong players--experts, masters, IMs & GMs--are at the top of the ratings in all the types of chess they play. They have spent a lot of time learning the game and improving their skills. The point is that they have a thorough understanding of chess and their high blitz rating is the result of skills learned outside of blitz and bullet.

 

My rating is above average... so is my IQ

John Nunn is an amazing person to study, not just for chess players but for anyone interested in highly intelligent people. This is what Magnus Carlsen said in2010:

I am sure if enough studies were conducted, a fairly rough estimate could be drawn up of a correlation between every level of chess and corresponding IQ numbers. But those would have to be some crazy studies. For example, you’d have to provide for time spent every day intentionally playing (not just addiction playing), time spent studying, and the various methods studied, physiological factors, like how healthy the subjects are, how much sleep they get, etc. All would have to be fairly equal to get a truly correct measurement. One good way to look at it is through extremes; I sincerely doubt, for example, that someone with an IQ below 100 could achieve a 2000 rating legitimately.

Also it depends on the game time limit for your rating.  If you are good at blitz, you are usually good at surprising and confusing your opponent, whereas if you are good at 10 min games, you are most likely to also do well in IQ.  If you are only good at 1h+ in chess, you can concentrate better and bore the other person into submission.  Just my opinion/idea, not backed up by science or anything

according to post 579 my iq is 160

post 579 is probably wrong

I said "only".  There is more likelihood you win then by boring the other person rather than being good .  As a twelve yr old, I once resigned a chess match in tourney when I realized my opponent was going to max out the game duration and I was already bored out of my mind waiting for the next move

Chess is in 90 percent memorizing ability, that was the reason for Bobby Fischer to invent a new chess variant. And the memorizing ability doesn’t stand necessarily in corelstion to IQ. So no

Hikaru Nakamura - 2774 (or something like that)

Also Hikaru: GM Hikaru Nakamura famously took the Mensa online IQ test and scored a very average 102.

as provided by Google. Seriously. Just search it up. "What is HIkarus IQ" is what I searched.

Intelligence matters, but not enough, apparently. Yes, Magnus has a 190, yes others in the chess scene are very smart. But you don't need to have a high IQ to be a good competitor. 

Magnus doesnt have a 190. That's "alleged", he never published any IQ test results.

 

Kasparov sat for a real IQ test which took him a few days to finish, and he was graded at around 135 or so.

No, Magnus doesn't have a 190.

You should stop believing that clickbait garbage. Next you'll be saying that Trump is really 6 foot 3.

 

At 135, he is still substantially brighter than almost every poster here.

"Majority" is putting it lightly.

If a player is active in both types of chess, and is 2500+ blitz here, then it's extremely unlikely they're below 2000 OTB.

But anyway, these types of discussions... no one knows what "correlation" means.

Yes there's a correlation between IQ and chess. Yes there's a correlation between blitz and OTB.

No, of course there's not a conversion formula.

It's 1 to 1.

To be a master you need an IQ of 2200.

 

By “here” I mean this thread.

Thanks.

I’m spending a lot less time on forums unless they are clearly chess. Busy life. Better focus. When this wind dies down, I hope to do some precision paper punching, which I haven’t done since prior to last fall’s hunting season. Also turkey season opens in less than two weeks. I need to get to the woods.