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**vkarlamov@yahoo.com**

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Zero wrote:
Since Kramnik is the world chess champion, does that mean that he is a
genius and have a high IQ? Could he be a member of Mensa ?

Mensa is what? 130+? I think Kramnik, like most other grandmasters, can
get 2 Mensa memberships, if you can figure out what i mean.

Of course we can figure out what you're saying --
do you think we're all stupid? You're saying that
Kramnik's IQ is not less than 230, so he can get
a multiple-membership discount at Mensa. ;D

Sure you are not stupid, but 130 times 2 is still 260 not 230.

I saw an online IQ test at tickle.com, and many
of the questions were just pattern-matching, which
is a skill not unrelated to chess. I expect most, if
not all, GMs would do well on such a test. But there
are those few who have a special talent for one thing,
and far from being all-around geniuses, these people
are often termed idiot-savants. I don't see any reason
an idiot-savant could not be "trained" to perform well
on a standard IQ test, provided he is not truly an
idiot. One problem is that these tests are rather
limited in scope. What is purportedly a test of
intelligence, is more a test of education and specific,
learned skills. What is needed is a more general
approach like say, putting a person in a cage with a
tiger and seeing if he is any "smarter" than a monkey
in the exact same position. :D

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