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No. My wife is fairly intelligent but lacks the talent to remember the rules (especially moving the knight) and the ability to pre-plan for an opponent's actions more than 1 move in advance on the chess board, yet when it comes to the actions of people (away from the chess board) she can predict many possibilities and plan accordingly.
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I don't believe there is any one thing such as intelligence. The intelligence that makes a good businessman is not the same as the intelligence that makes a good engineer which in turn is not the same as the intelligence which makes a good mathematician or a good doctor. So chess-intelligence probably has quite a lot in common with logical-problem-intelligence, but probably not much in common with the others.
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Yeah, "intelligence" is a pretty nebulous concept. After all, Bobby Fischer became the greatest ever American player (and had an IQ of 187)--and ended up being a Jewish Nazi.
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I've known people that were very intelligent but couldn't play chess at all. And I've seen people that were not very bright (to put it politely) that really had a mind for chess. And then there are the Autistic savants that can play chess but not do much else.
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No it isn't a good measure of intelligence but it shows that they are good at strategy.
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Yes, to some degree, and patience. Many people make bad moves in chess because they do not have the patience to survey all possible moves first. Usually the person with the best degree of patience will win if the intelligence is equal.
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no
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Yes in that everyone that I know that is good at chess has a high IQ (I do myself). The ability to work things out.... is very useful in IQ tests. Just becuase someone is poor at chess does not mean they have a low IQ - Someone with a high IQ still needs to learn how to play chess to be good at it. Note I may have a high IQ - but what does that meam. Is it important - no. I am not exceptional at quizzes and a lot of people with high IQs lack common sense.... I'm not very practical.... So I dont feel superio because of it. Anymore than I feel inferior that my best amte can play football better than me.
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It is a measure of one facet of their intelligence. I for one love a good chess match and I refuse to play on the internet because I enjoy playing on a real board against a tangible opponent. It builds for some good drama especially if we are both smoking and are really into the strategy and intrigue that the board will present.
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Really chess is about spacial configuration of pieces and knowing how they move so in a sense it does signify intelligence on numbers patterns and spacial
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There is a combination of factors in a good chess player, I had the same question once, this is by far the best response that I found! 'Spatial intelligence - especially the ability to perceive possibilities for movement - is clearly crucial to chess thinking, as is the capacity to build up a system of knowledge (knowing that) and experience (knowing how). This system must be stored (memory) and well managed - rules, analogies and operating principles must be constantly abstracted, adapted and improved (perhaps not always on a conscious level). Chess thinking often involves a complex, hierarchical structure of problems and sub-problems, and the capacity for retaining such complex structures of data (not getting confused), and for keeping objectives clear and well organised, all correlate with having a high IQ.'
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Not always. Someone can be of average intelligence but know the game really well.
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I think we're starting to understand that intelligence is a grab bag of different skills that show up in any number of different combinations. The most brilliant chess player I know is profoundly autistic, for example. Is he intelligent? Absolutely -- but his conversational skills and ability to interact with and empathize with other people are very limited.
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It's a measure of only a particular kind of intelligence. A person can be a brilliant chess player and a complete idiot otherwise. Bobby Fischer is a horrible example of this.
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Nope +4
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It seems like it might be a good guage of their ability to strategize and to plan.
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No, not really.
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