What do you think GM Hikaru IQ is?

I know that it's hard for someone with your (estimated) IQ to understand, but someone quoting a nameless "mentor" to give baseless or disproved data will not convince anyone that the question has been definitively answered.

199

The guy doesn't care about the former 1100 comments, all the drama, insults and moderation. He just throws in a random number and goes away forever. Amazing.

It can go both ways.

I often see the "You have to be a genius to be great at chess!" viewpoint as its own kind of coping mechanism, as well.

By that I mean, a lot of players point at "IQ" or intelligence in general as the reason they may struggle at chess. Many (not all, to be fair ... but many) would rather pin the blame on some abstract number than look critically at their own efforts ...

Then they simultaneously dismiss the tremendous amount of work and effort that top players have put into the game by simply labelling them "geniuses" - as if these players simply floated to their high levels by accident alone.

If only we knew the endless hours of toiling and struggling that they endured to reach their peaks ...

Because you were the instigator, and gave a list of people. Someone of reasonable IQ would see this distinction.

Chess is mostly memorisation, bar some middle game tactics, but then tactics are also pre determined, there are so many of them in a game of chess. There is bare minimal link between being intelligent and being good at chess. Intelligent people also do not waste their lives playing an inherently meaningless game and instead decide to do something more meaningful, productive and most likely, more beneficial in a monetary sense bearing in mind making a living from chess is extremely difficult.

I think hikaru has 274 IQ

Perhaps now the new trend of the I Q result is by Fans voting ?

...Can be millions

Not the one I took.

If your mentor has said what you have claimed, then you need a better mentor.

Please take as a metaphor, The Sith code of Star Wars, says that the student needs to defeat his mentor. That is what Vader accomplishes correctly,even when Palpatine is apparently his esoteric and material dad, secretly... I'm on the Light side, but Grey Jedis can observe the dark side a bit to learn.Only consider that not necessarily need to think exactly as mentors all time in everyways...

All this blabbering about how high IQs are and what kind of IQ tests are better is a load of bushwa. I've never considered it of paramount importance or been impressed by those who boast about their score. (I scored very high on my IQ test when young--undoubtedly I'v slowed down considerably at age 75.) IQ is just one aspect of cognitive function; actual successful intellectual activity requires much more. I've seen "dullards" that need a lot of varying explanations to comprehend what I thought were basic concepts to go on and develop great ideas, and I've seen geniuses in their field that were unable to successfully cope with simple quotidian tasks.

sigma

how ironic coming from someone with a <70 IQ. thinking basketball is the same as chess is the dumbest thing i've ever heard

That's ok. I'll keep doing it if his comments don't get deleted.

he's way smarter than you

Too bad he doesn't exist.

You just stole that list from a random webpage, and decided to look cool with it, didn't you? Well, it didn't exactly work.

what website then

Take your lightsaber.... Strike down with furious and cut chains that inchained you to your mentor that your know about the dark side will be end and be completed !