What is the avg. IQ of players on chess.com

Einstein had a iq of around 160....

Chess requires a lot of discipline that even a great genius may not muster without thorough training. As someone who has never played chess until I was 28, starting now has been a humbling experience. Besides being unable to tell if people are cheating, or not even realizing all of the rules of the game. Just learning from playing by trial and error. I have discovered a great deal. Including that it is evidently not even against the rules to look up starter positions and basically guarantee 100% starter accuracies. I'm not sure what that means overall to ratings and I have never played in a tournament over the board. I personally have no real interest, for me it is just a fun game. Nothing that competitive, ill likely never seek coaching. I have been tested and have a much higher than average IQ. Regardless I have not gotten past 1000 rating on chess.com. Granted apparently I didn't realize I could have started at 1200 and I chose 500. My score fluctuates quite a bit, and honestly the challenge of the game is interesting. I am in no way a chess master or prodigy. My greatest game was beating a 1700. I probably won't ever be a chess master. I can guarantee the amount of effort and games needed to reach that rating are not worth it for myself. Even winning all the games back to back 0 losses would just be too many games. I think of chess rating more like a high score on video games. I recognize the thinking ability involved, and I don't think advanced players are dumb at all. I just think of it like this. Someone else may even be a genius.. but if they never started playing until they were 40, and someone with a similar IQ as them started at age 5... they will likely never even come close and the player who started first could probably beat the other a majority of games for the rest of their lives. It is what it is, and playing chess has ultimately been a humbling experience. I guarantee that it is a specialized skillset however, and for 99% of people it should not ever be more than a hobby for fun time... it is in no way anything more than a waste of time basically. Just think about it... a genius could devote their entire lives perfecting this game to the point of obsession. A different genius could devote their lives to master something else like art. Sure the genius artist may be great at chess... but never perfect it. The same could be said of the chess player. Most genius chess players basically just play chess and rarely have anything else. The top players in the world survive from chess and play ruthlessly. By comparison everyone plays timid and lacks a complete understanding. It is a game with as many concepts and variables as life itself. More potential moves exist on the board then there are atoms in the solar system. I just play for self improvement now.

what's interesting is that many who claim to have above average IQ's are still easily duped via illusions/deceptions.