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Have you studied chess at an advanced level (1500+ elo)? Your assertion makes me seriously doubt that you have. And like I said, it's pretty hard to deny IQ is

Have you studied chess at an advanced level (1500+ elo)? Your assertion makes me seriously doubt that you have. And like I said, it's pretty hard to deny IQ is a proxy for learning rate (which is extremely beneficial practically). But it is not the deciding factor in human potential. There are much more impactful and practically easy improve environmental factors like culture, school system, diet, parenting that are a much more fruitful place to focus our effort.

Jensson 5y ago
Have you studied mathematics at an advanced level (ie Principles of mathematical analysis by Rudin)? Your assertion makes me seriously doubt that you have. Learning chess and mathematics is nothing alike. People who do well on math also do well on IQ, that not being true for Chess would mean that Chess is different from most other topics. So for example, if you want to train someone to be a human calculator, really fast at crunching numbers, then you don't need intelligent people. That is what chess is like. But if you want people to build and understand huge complex systems all carefully interconnected like Math then you need intelligent people.