Is there a relationship between our lichess rating and our intelligence ? • page 4/5 • General Chess Discussion • lichess.org

what it does do is help you with lower level skills such as powers of concentration, which will of course help you perform better at scholastic math and the like.

Unless you only ever played bullet like me. I started playing chess thinking it would help me with concentration and memorization.

Instead all that happened is I played so much bullet that the game became easier through intuition, and I still completely lack skills in puzzles, tactics, strategy, memorization, concentration, etc.

In fact, half of the time I'm playing chess, I'm half-asleep or doing it just to burn brain cells between meetings.

I've disappointed myself a bit with that. I know that I can work on concentration by doing puzzles, but I don't want to. But maybe I should.

@fwhchess said in #30: > what it does do is help you with lower level skills such as powers of concentration, which will of course help you perform better at scholastic math and the like. Unless you only ever played bullet like me. I started playing chess thinking it would help me with concentration and memorization. Instead all that happened is I played so much bullet that the game became easier through intuition, and I still completely lack skills in puzzles, tactics, strategy, memorization, concentration, etc. In fact, half of the time I'm playing chess, I'm half-asleep or doing it just to burn brain cells between meetings. I've disappointed myself a bit with that. I know that I can work on concentration by doing puzzles, but I don't want to. But maybe I should.

sharo

#32

I think egoism is a sign of low intelligence. And the time it takes to have a high rating is probably a sign of bad judgement. No, I don't think chess rating is an indication of intelligence.

#33

airfloo

#34

Elo has nothing to do with intelligence, intelligence might be helpful to learn chess but chess is mainly about pattern recognition and visualization. A popular citation can be found here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222434978_Does_chess_need_intelligence_-_A_study_with_young_chess_players

kindaspongey

#35

"... an experienced trainer can detect [chess talent] almost immediately. A talented youngster absorbs chess knowledge more quickly, and uses it more effectively. He quickly identifies the main points in what his trainer tells him, or in what he reads in books, correctly identifies the moments when it is right to follow this or that chess principle, or to use a certain technical device.
Talented children can usually play blindfold games almost immediately. They move quickly, calculate variations rapidly, and are good at blitz and rapid games. ... Grandmaster B, at the age of 12, played so fast that, in a bid to get him to slow down and play thoughtfully, I advised him to write down in an exercise book all the moves he had considered, before actually playing his move. The child took no more than one minute to write down seven (!) candidate moves, and to play an eighth. Now that is talent! ..." - Alexander Vaisman (~2009)

"... an experienced trainer can detect [chess talent] almost immediately. A talented youngster absorbs chess knowledge more quickly, and uses it more effectively. He quickly identifies the main points in what his trainer tells him, or in what he reads in books, correctly identifies the moments when it is right to follow this or that chess principle, or to use a certain technical device. Talented children can usually play blindfold games almost immediately. They move quickly, calculate variations rapidly, and are good at blitz and rapid games. ... Grandmaster B, at the age of 12, played so fast that, in a bid to get him to slow down and play thoughtfully, I advised him to write down in an exercise book all the moves he had considered, before actually playing his move. The child took no more than one minute to write down seven (!) candidate moves, and to play an eighth. Now that is talent! ..." - Alexander Vaisman (~2009)

I don't think it is

No, I don't think so. But I am beginning to suspect that there is a direct correlation between my pathetic puzzle streak record and my IQ: It's 26...

kindaspongey edited

#38

........Points..........Correlation
(1.1) (2,2) (3,1)............0
(1,1) (2,3) (3,2)............0.5
(1,1) (2,2) (3,3)............1

........Points..........Correlation (1.1) (2,2) (3,1)............0 (1,1) (2,3) (3,2)............0.5 (1,1) (2,2) (3,3)............1

coledavis

#39

@xDoubledragon re paragraph 26: no chance about what? I told the truth about IQ and Lichess rating.

dude202

#40

No...but there is a relationship between chess ratings and how much beer and weed you smoke while playing