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Re:On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Y... by jonwachob91 on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:12AM (#25113356)
> GM Hikaru Nakamura famously took the Mensa online IQ test and scored a very average 102

Nice clickbait. It you watched him take it on stream, you'd know that he was goofing around with his chat and ran out of time b/c he didn't know it was timed.

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Re:On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Y... by tutfbhuf on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:27PM (#25114377)
Fair enough, let me try again:

https://chess.stackexchange.com/a/24946

> The most comprehensive and recent publication I've found related to this question is The relationship between cognitive ability and chess skill: A comprehensive meta-analysis.

> The bottom line is that according to a meta-analysis of numerous studies, there is clearly a correlation between chess skill and cognitive ability, but cognitive ability explains only about 6% of the variance in chess skill (12% if you only consider numerical ability only). There must be other factors as well (e.g., training), some of which could be more important than cognitive ability.

From my personal observations I very much agree with 6%.

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