[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f34ugv3ajdibxk":3,"$f27qo82yht9ynw":40},{"success":4,"data":5},true,{"id":6,"slug":7,"coverImage":8,"author":9,"viewsCount":10,"createdAt":11,"title":12,"description":13,"lang":14,"contentHtml":15,"readingTime":16,"toc":17},"j0ewjm0ebk8n224fzvltegnf","magnus-carlsen-iq","https:\u002F\u002Fupload.wikimedia.org\u002Fwikipedia\u002Fcommons\u002Fthumb\u002F9\u002F9b\u002FMagnus_Carlsen_2013c.jpg\u002F1280px-Magnus_Carlsen_2013c.jpg","Dr. Daria Dudnik",1,"2026-07-27T10:48:11.731Z","Magnus Carlsen's IQ: Debunking the 190 Myth","Magnus Carlsen's IQ is widely quoted as 190 — a fabricated figure he has never confirmed. What chess research actually says about intelligence, practice, and the world's best player.","en","\u003Ch2 id=\"what-is-magnus-carlsen-s-iq\">What Is Magnus Carlsen's IQ?\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Magnus Carlsen is the highest-rated chess player in history. Naturally, the internet has assigned him an IQ: usually 190, sometimes 205. Both numbers are inventions, and Carlsen himself has dismissed the question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chess attracts this kind of speculation more than any other game, because it looks like pure thinking made visible. There is no physical component, no hidden information, no luck of the draw — two people sit down with identical resources and one of them reasons better. It feels like an intelligence test with a scoreboard. That intuition is powerful, widely shared, and mostly wrong, and the research explaining why is some of the most interesting work in cognitive psychology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"article-stat\">\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-stat__number\">Not publicly tested\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-stat__label\">Magnus Carlsen has never released an IQ score. Asked about it directly in interviews, he has said he does not know his IQ and has no interest in finding out — adding that he would not want to publish a number that could only disappoint people.\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n    \u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"article-warning\">\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-warning__title\">\n        \u003Cspan class=\"article-warning__icon\">⚠️\u003C\u002Fspan>\n        Where the 190 figure came from\n      \u003C\u002Fdiv>\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-warning__body\">The 190 figure appears to originate from a fabricated 2013 magazine claim that circulated on chess forums and was then copied into listicles. There is no test, no tester, and no institution attached to it. An IQ of 190 would be six standard deviations above the mean — roughly one in a billion — and most standard batteries cannot even produce that score.\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n    \u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"the-verified-record\">The Verified Record\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Unlike his IQ, Carlsen's chess achievements are precisely documented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"article-table-wrapper\">\u003Ctable>\n\u003Cthead>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Cth>Achievement\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003Cth>Detail\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Fthead>\n\u003Ctbody>\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>Born\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Tønsberg, Norway, 30 November 1990\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>Grandmaster title\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>2004, aged 13 years 4 months — third youngest at the time\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>World No. 1\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>First reached January 2010, aged 19\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>Peak rating\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>2882 — the highest in chess history\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>World Chess Champion\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>2013–2023 (voluntarily relinquished the classical title)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>Rapid & Blitz titles\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Multiple world championships in both formats\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>Simultaneous formats\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Has held classical, rapid, and blitz world titles at the same time\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"what-carlsen-s-play-actually-reveals\">What Carlsen's Play Actually Reveals\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Chess strength is not a general intelligence test, but it is a very precise measure of specific cognitive abilities. Carlsen's style is unusually informative because it differs from that of previous champions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier world champions tended to have a signature weapon. Kasparov had unmatched opening preparation and ferocious attacking play; Karpov had a python-like positional squeeze; Tal had tactical chaos. Carlsen's signature is the absence of one. He is very good at everything and exceptional at refusing to lose, which in practice means he steers games toward long, technically balanced positions and then outlasts opponents who make one small inaccuracy in move sixty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"article-callout\">\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-callout__title\">\n        \u003Cspan class=\"article-callout__icon\">💡\u003C\u002Fspan>\n        Carlsen's cognitive signature\n      \u003C\u002Fdiv>\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-callout__body\">- \u003Cstrong>Positional memory at enormous scale.\u003C\u002Fstrong> Carlsen is known for recalling thousands of games, including obscure ones from decades before he was born. In exhibitions he has identified positions from historic games shown to him briefly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Endgame precision.\u003C\u002Fstrong> His defining edge is grinding tiny advantages in simplified positions over 60–100 moves — a test of sustained accuracy and patience rather than tactical fireworks.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Low-theory openings.\u003C\u002Fstrong> Unlike Kasparov's era of deep opening preparation, Carlsen frequently plays modest openings deliberately, aiming for playable middlegames where his general strength decides the outcome.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Practical decision-making under time pressure.\u003C\u002Fstrong> His dominance in blitz and rapid suggests exceptionally fast pattern retrieval, not just deep calculation.\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n    \u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"does-chess-ability-equal-high-iq\">Does Chess Ability Equal High IQ?\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>This is the question the "190" myth quietly assumes. The research says the relationship is real but limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"article-table-wrapper\">\u003Ctable>\n\u003Cthead>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Cth>Finding\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003Cth>Study\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003Cth>Implication\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Fthead>\n\u003Ctbody>\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Chess players average IQ ~115\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Frydman & Lynn (1992)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Above average, not extreme\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Practice predicts skill better than IQ among elite juniors\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Bilalić et al. (2007)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Deliberate practice dominates at the top\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Chess players excel on non-verbal reasoning only\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Unterrainer et al. (2006)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Domain-specific, not general\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Grandmasters' memory advantage vanishes for random positions\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>de Groot (1965); Chase & Simon (1973)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Chunking, not raw memory\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Meta-analysis: IQ–chess correlation weakens as skill rises\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Burgoyne et al. (2016)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Near-zero predictive value among elites\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003Cp>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"article-callout\">\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-callout__title\">\n        \u003Cspan class=\"article-callout__icon\">💡\u003C\u002Fspan>\n        The de Groot result\n      \u003C\u002Fdiv>\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-callout__body\">Adriaan de Groot showed grandmasters a real game position for five seconds and asked them to reconstruct it. They did so almost perfectly. When the same pieces were scattered randomly, grandmasters performed no better than club players. Their apparent superhuman memory is stored \u003Cem>chess knowledge\u003C\u002Fem>, not general memory capacity. This is the single most important finding for understanding what Carlsen's brain is actually doing.\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n    \u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"the-10-000-hour-side-of-the-story\">The 10,000-Hour Side of the Story\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Carlsen has been studying chess since roughly age five. By the time he became a grandmaster at 13 he had accumulated a volume of deliberate practice that almost no other child in the world had matched. He worked with Simen Agdestein and later with Garry Kasparov as a trainer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The support structure around him was also unusual. His father, himself a strong amateur, took the family out of school for a year to travel Europe playing tournaments. Norway, a country with no significant chess tradition, built a professional infrastructure around him. He had access to engines and databases from childhood, tools that reshaped how his generation studies the game. None of that diminishes the achievement, but it does mean the counterfactual — the same child born in a different family in a different decade — looks very different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is also worth stating plainly what the practice actually consists of, because "studying chess" sounds pleasant. It means reviewing your own losses in detail, memorizing endgame tablebases, working through opening lines twenty moves deep that may never appear on the board, and doing this for several hours a day for two decades. Very few people are temperamentally capable of it, and that constraint — tolerance for repetitive, unglamorous work — filters the population far more aggressively than any cognitive threshold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"article-warning\">\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-warning__title\">\n        \u003Cspan class=\"article-warning__icon\">⚠️\u003C\u002Fspan>\n        Why the myth is unfair to him\n      \u003C\u002Fdiv>\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-warning__body\">Attributing Carlsen's success to a fictional IQ of 190 erases roughly two decades of eight-hour days. It also sets up a false model for anyone else: if greatness comes from a number you were born with, there is no point practicing. The actual evidence says the opposite, and it says so consistently across every domain where the question has been studied carefully.\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n    \u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"carlsen-compared-to-other-champions\">Carlsen Compared to Other Champions\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"article-table-wrapper\">\u003Ctable>\n\u003Cthead>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Cth>Player\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003Cth>Peak rating\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003Cth>Commonly cited IQ\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003Cth>Real evidence\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Fthead>\n\u003Ctbody>\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>Magnus Carlsen\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>2882\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>190\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>None; declined to be tested\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>Garry Kasparov\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>2851\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>135–190\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>A 1987 German magazine test reportedly put him around 135\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>Bobby Fischer\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>2785\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>180\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>A reported school test in the 180s; poorly documented\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>Judit Polgár\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>2735\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>170\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>None; trained intensively from age 3\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>Hikaru Nakamura\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>2816\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>102 (self-reported online test)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Took a casual online test on stream\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003Cp>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"article-callout\">\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-callout__title\">\n        \u003Cspan class=\"article-callout__icon\">💡\u003C\u002Fspan>\n        The Nakamura data point\n      \u003C\u002Fdiv>\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-callout__body\">Hikaru Nakamura, a top-10 player for most of two decades, took an online IQ test during a livestream and scored around 102. The test was casual and unproctored, so the result means little as a measurement — but it demolishes the assumption that elite chess requires an extreme IQ. If a superhuman score were a prerequisite, a player of Nakamura's calibre could not plausibly land near the population average even on a sloppy test.\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n    \u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"bottom-line\">Bottom Line\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"article-callout\">\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-callout__title\">\n        \u003Cspan class=\"article-callout__icon\">💡\u003C\u002Fspan>\n        Bottom line\n      \u003C\u002Fdiv>\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-callout__body\">Magnus Carlsen's IQ is unknown, and the widely repeated 190 is fabricated. What is documented is a 2882 peak rating, a grandmaster title at 13, and roughly twenty years of daily study. The research consensus is clear: chess mastery is built from domain-specific pattern knowledge and enormous practice volume, and among elite players IQ has almost no predictive power. Carlsen is a monument to deliberate practice, not to a genetic lottery ticket.\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n    \u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"article-quiz-cta\">\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"article-quiz-cta__text\">Curious about your own pattern-recognition and reasoning ability? Take a professional IQ test on NeuroLab.\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n      \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Ftests\u002Fiq-standard\" class=\"article-quiz-cta__button\">\n        Take the Test Now →\n      \u003C\u002Fa>\n    \u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fp>",9,[18,22,25,28,31,34,37],{"id":19,"text":20,"level":21},"what-is-magnus-carlsen-s-iq","What Is Magnus Carlsen's IQ?",2,{"id":23,"text":24,"level":21},"the-verified-record","The Verified Record",{"id":26,"text":27,"level":21},"what-carlsen-s-play-actually-reveals","What Carlsen's Play Actually Reveals",{"id":29,"text":30,"level":21},"does-chess-ability-equal-high-iq","Does Chess Ability Equal High IQ?",{"id":32,"text":33,"level":21},"the-10-000-hour-side-of-the-story","The 10,000-Hour Side of the Story",{"id":35,"text":36,"level":21},"carlsen-compared-to-other-champions","Carlsen Compared to Other Champions",{"id":38,"text":39,"level":21},"bottom-line","Bottom Line",{"success":4,"data":41,"pagination":184},[42,50,51,58,66,74,81,90,98,106,113,120,127,134,140,148,155,162,169,176],{"id":43,"slug":44,"coverImage":45,"author":9,"viewsCount":46,"createdAt":47,"title":48,"description":49,"lang":14,"readingTime":16},"shph7xbe2v6j3cq9w7s881ap","stephen-hawking-iq","https:\u002F\u002Fupload.wikimedia.org\u002Fwikipedia\u002Fcommons\u002Fthumb\u002F2\u002F2e\u002FStephen_Hawking_2015.jpg\u002F1280px-Stephen_Hawking_2015.jpg",3,"2026-07-27T10:48:11.904Z","Stephen Hawking's IQ: Why He Called Boasters 'Losers'","Stephen Hawking's IQ is quoted as 160 everywhere, but he was never tested — and he dismissed the question outright. A fact-checked look at his record, his methods, and what actually made him exceptional.",{"id":6,"slug":7,"coverImage":8,"author":9,"viewsCount":21,"createdAt":11,"title":12,"description":13,"lang":14,"readingTime":16},{"id":52,"slug":53,"coverImage":54,"author":9,"viewsCount":21,"createdAt":55,"title":56,"description":57,"lang":14,"readingTime":16},"epirw4xtq1e5n16h3tbvgjb5","bill-gates-iq","https:\u002F\u002Fupload.wikimedia.org\u002Fwikipedia\u002Fcommons\u002Fthumb\u002Fd\u002Fd9\u002FBill_Gates_at_the_European_Commission_-_P067383-987995_%28cropped%29_5.jpg\u002F1280px-Bill_Gates_at_the_European_Commission_-_P067383-987995_%28cropped%29_5.jpg","2026-07-27T10:48:11.546Z","Bill Gates' IQ: What His 1590 SAT Score Really Tells Us","Bill Gates never took a published IQ test — the famous 160 is extrapolated from a 1590 SAT. Here's why that conversion fails, and what his record genuinely proves.",{"id":59,"slug":60,"coverImage":61,"author":9,"viewsCount":46,"createdAt":62,"title":63,"description":64,"lang":14,"readingTime":65},"b8gl3klegh5620utsftdt2p7","elon-musk-iq","https:\u002F\u002Fupload.wikimedia.org\u002Fwikipedia\u002Fcommons\u002Fthumb\u002F5\u002F5e\u002FElon_Musk_-_54820081119_%28cropped%29.jpg\u002F1280px-Elon_Musk_-_54820081119_%28cropped%29.jpg","2026-07-27T10:48:11.370Z","Elon Musk's IQ: Why the Famous 155 Has No Source","Elon Musk's IQ is quoted everywhere as 155 — but no test result has ever been published. A fact-checked look at where the number came from and what his record actually shows.",8,{"id":67,"slug":68,"coverImage":69,"author":9,"viewsCount":70,"createdAt":71,"title":72,"description":73,"lang":14,"readingTime":16},"vxe24efisix3c1y7layo0mf4","nikola-tesla-iq","https:\u002F\u002Fupload.wikimedia.org\u002Fwikipedia\u002Fcommons\u002Fthumb\u002F7\u002F79\u002FTesla_circa_1890.jpeg\u002F1280px-Tesla_circa_1890.jpeg",0,"2026-07-27T10:44:34.664Z","Nikola Tesla's IQ: Separating the Man From the 310 Myth","Was Nikola Tesla's IQ really 200 or 310? A fact-checked look at why no score exists, what Tesla wrote about his own mind, and what his patent record actually proves.",{"id":75,"slug":76,"coverImage":77,"author":9,"viewsCount":70,"createdAt":78,"title":79,"description":80,"lang":14,"readingTime":16},"kv0tvdbrvqkibjz50dsq0usn","albert-einstein-iq","https:\u002F\u002Fupload.wikimedia.org\u002Fwikipedia\u002Fcommons\u002Fthumb\u002F2\u002F28\u002FAlbert_Einstein_Head_cleaned.jpg\u002F1280px-Albert_Einstein_Head_cleaned.jpg","2026-07-27T10:44:34.466Z","Albert Einstein's IQ: The Truth Behind the Famous 160","Albert Einstein never took an IQ test — so where does the famous 160 come from? A fact-checked look at the myth, his real school records, and what his actual cognitive profile looked like.",{"id":82,"slug":83,"coverImage":84,"author":85,"viewsCount":21,"createdAt":86,"title":87,"description":88,"lang":14,"readingTime":89},"m7es1j6exv8goqeam3byrlzg","iq-vs-intelligence","https:\u002F\u002Fimages.unsplash.com\u002Fphoto-1732780769402-b4ca6455ded0?q=80&w=1028&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D","NeuroLab Team","2026-07-26T19:26:23.236Z","IQ vs Intelligence: Why Your Test Score Is Not the Same as Your Mind","IQ is a number produced by a test. Intelligence is the thing the test is trying to estimate. This article explains the gap between them, what IQ genuinely captures, and everything it leaves out.",12,{"id":91,"slug":92,"coverImage":93,"author":85,"viewsCount":94,"createdAt":95,"title":96,"description":97,"lang":14,"readingTime":89},"vscj8dw21k83vkj1cfe9ipzs","iq-vs-eq","https:\u002F\u002Fimages.unsplash.com\u002Fphoto-1499209974431-9dddcece7f88?q=80&w=1170&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D",5,"2026-07-26T19:26:23.147Z","IQ vs EQ: Which One Actually Predicts Success in Life?","A deep, evidence-based comparison of IQ and emotional intelligence — what each one measures, where the popular narrative gets it wrong, and how the two abilities interact in real careers and relationships.",{"id":99,"slug":100,"coverImage":101,"author":9,"viewsCount":46,"createdAt":102,"title":103,"description":104,"lang":14,"readingTime":105},"p4l2iv9qytts8ucuipitn0gw","average-iq-of-chess-players","https:\u002F\u002Fimages.unsplash.com\u002Fphoto-1604948501466-4e9c339b9c24?q=80&w=1170&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D","2026-07-26T17:01:29.930Z","Average IQ of Chess Players: Intelligence on the 64 Squares","A fascinating analysis of the average IQ of chess players by rating level, whether chess makes you smarter, and what cognitive abilities the royal game 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