Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 05:42:56 05/09/05
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On May 09, 2005 at 07:45:14, Roger D Davis wrote: >IN >fact, a guy with a 500 IQ (were such a thing possible) could probably play chess >like a guy with a 100 IQ...on his first game. I say this because intelligence, >broadly conceived, is the capacity to acquire knowledge in any particular >domain. Intelligence is concerned with rates. Accordingly, you could be the most >intelligent person in the world, but with no experience, you'll lose. But you'll >probably learn the game faster than anybody. > >Roger That is wrong. If it were true then academics and doctors with high intelligence would improve in chess over experience after some years. But this is easily refutated. I know a lot of chessclubs and the genuine chess talent will always play above the level of intelligent people without a special chess talent. So you can find many doctors and professors playing in low teams while the chess talents play in superior classes. I could still accept your general thesis. But we can't research it because most intelligent people and academics don't play chess for years (anymore after their youth). Perhaps the theory should go like this: - people with high intelligence and already great talent stop playing in their younger age because they understand what all seperates them from highest chess genius; they do also avoid to get lost in the more or less starving scene of chess where they risk to become cases for social welfare. Other than in the former SU states where chess was a highly supporte profession, you must get attractive jobs to be able to make a living for your own family. Therefore a lot of high talents simply stopped playing. They all would be better than the average club players and they could prove your thesis. - people with high intelligence and chess talent but without great perspectives in either chess or science will sty in the chess scene but they have no chance to (ever) get really successful in chess [that is the sample I was refering to above]
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