Do GRANDMASTERS have high iq s??🤔🤔

Grandmaster’s chess skills and IQ score is more complex than it appears at first glance.

5 Chess Grandmasters That Have a High IQ
While there are a few famous Chess Grandmasters that have high a IQ, there are also others that don’t have high IQs. This means that you don’t necessarily have to have a high IQ to be a chess grandmaster.

1. Magnus Carlsen
 
In 2009, Magnus Carlsen became the new world chess champion, and he held this title for six years. His peak rating was 2847, the highest in history. His high IQ has been widely documented and he has scored at least a few hundred points higher than the average in standardized tests. He has an IQ of 190. In 2003, he was even invited to take an IQ test at Cambridge University after being recognized as one of Norway’s most exceptional 13-year-old schoolchildren.

2. Sergey Karjakin
In 2016, Sergey Karjakin became the first grandmaster born in the 1990s. He has an IQ of around 160 and is a former chess prodigy. He was a child chess prodigy, and he achieved his first grandmaster norm before the age of 12.

Sergey earned more norms by the time he turned 18 and at 19 he was Russia’s youngest grandmaster. He is currently ranked No. 3 in the world with an elo rating of 2554.

3. Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Tal, or “The Marshall” as he was nicknamed, was one of the best Soviet grandmasters to ever push a pawn. He achieved his first grandmaster norm at age 13 and went on to become one of the leading Russian chess players during the Cold War era.

By 1965, Tal earned his first of three world championships in rapid chess. At times, he was hailed as one of the strongest chess players ever to play the game. Mikhail Tal has an IQ of 175.

4. Gary Kasparov
Garry Kasparov is considered to be one of the most talented, strongest and most creative chess players ever. He was considered a master of strategy, and he played against the world’s top chess players for 20 years. By the 1990s he was recognized as the best chess player in the world, and by 2007, he was considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time. He’s still considered one of the strongest ever. He has a 190 IQ score.

5. Bobby Fischer
During the late 1960s, Bobby Fischer was arguably the best chess player in the world. He had an amazing record in international competitions, and he won several world championships.

By 1972, he became World Chess Champion after playing a world championship tournament against Boris Spassky in Iceland. Although Fischer declined to defend his title, he continued to play competitive chess up to 1987. He has an IQ score of 181