If Albert Einstein played chess he could have been one of the greatest Chess Player🏤🏡⛲
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Albert Einstein had a excellent IQ but he never played the mind game of chess seriously but do anybody thinks if he tried he could have been in the leagues of Fischer Kasparov or carlsen true or False🏰
Sorry bro....but I am not agree with you :(
May be
May 27, 2017
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monkeychess09 wrote:
Albert Einstein had a excellent IQ
You don't know this, and you don't know how IQ relates to chess.
monkeychess09 wrote:
anybody thinks if he tried he could have been in the leagues of Fischer Kasparov or carlsen
No. Skills are unique. I'm sure he could have been a very good player if he had started young, worked hard, and had a passion for chess, but it's doubtful he could have been one of the very best. Different skills are different.
May 27, 2017
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Einstein is quoted as saying: "Chess grips its exponent, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom and independence of even the strongest character cannot remain unaffected."
May 27, 2017
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I did two IQ tests in my life, I scored 129 as a teen and 132 when I was 20, which isn't super high but not bad. It's probably half that now in my 30's with kids and no sleep lol. Anyway I could study this game like a mad man and probably never reach anything higher than expert. I just don't have the stuff. I like what Magnus said in an interview recently. He said he was always able to deeply hold focus on the task at hand, and that he's just like most people when it comes to most things, not a genius at it that is, but when it comes to focus he excels. That right there is my issue, I cannot concentrate nearly enough to be great at this game. I have great problem solving skills, but a poor ability to focus for a long period of time.
Albert Einstein did play chess..
IQ isn't a measure of intelligence.. Being a genius doesn't necessarily make you a master in playing chess.
You can't just say that Albert Einstein would be good at chess if he played seriously. Saying that is just making an arbitrary assumption.
Great chess players usually have extraordinary memories, Carlsen apparently has a photographic memory for one, and although intelligence will help, chess is more being able to remember patterns and apply them in your games.
May 27, 2017
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I recall reading somewhere that Einstein played chess and knew Lasker personally, but he didnt like the game very much.
May 27, 2017
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wb_munchausen wrote:
I recall reading somewhere that Einstein played chess and knew Lasker personally...
Well, yeah. He wrote the intro to Lasker's biography.
Einstein did play chess!
May 27, 2017
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I'll say false. I have a measured IQ of 147 and have known two people so much brighter than me - in theoretical chemistry - that I can't conceive of how they generate good solutions so fast and knowing them made me relate to how people who are mentally slow must think of smarter people.
Nevertheless, they were not intuitively good at games like chess and go, and I think it was because their spacial/geometric vision wasn't so good - even though they could describe exactly how a person traveling at the speed of light would see stationary objects in a distorted way.
I also have limitations in that way. A new store will open up on our main highway that I pass by 15 times in a month without noticing. I have a 2116 USCF correspondence rating from the 1970's when no home computer engines were around to cheat with, I coached a high school team to tournament and county champion and 3 state trophies for 3rd, 4th, and 5th, but I've never had a great OTB rating.
So IQ is clearly far from the only factor.
May 27, 2017
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Galaxybro wrote:
Einstein is quoted as saying: "Chess grips its exponent, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom and independence of even the strongest character cannot remain unaffected."
May 27, 2017
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Destroyer_Mark_1420 wrote:
Einstein was a 2000-2200 rated player.
False. Einstein is estimated to have been around 1400-strength.
Strong memory is required to be great at chess. Not only intelligence.
May 27, 2017
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There isn't much of a correlation between intelligence and ability to play chess. Yeah, if you play chess long enough you'll get good at it, which is the same for almost any hobby imaginable. I'm sure if Einstein did nothing but play chess he would be a GM/IM. Who is to say that he would be the best, though? Nothing suggests that he would be the best from the few recorded games he has played.
Optimissed wrote:
His IQ was about 160 .... approx. the same as mine and there are many reasonably bright people who may not play chess all that well. I suspect he was temperamentally unsuited to chess. He was far too angry a person. You can be unbalanced and play chess well but I doubt you can to it if you can't control your emotions.
No and no.
jengaias wrote:
My point is, the abilities of a chess player have nothing to do with intelligence or super memory.Focus , as mentioned , is one of the most important ones.
When a parent comes in the cub and says "my kid is very clever,he will be a champion"(it happens all the time) the first thing the trainer does is to explain to him that chess and intelligence are not related.
No chess coach that I know has ever said such...they will say whatever continues to get them $$$, which is definitely not that chess and intelligence are unlinked. Parents like to believe being great at chess will translate into great grades and a successful career/life, etc. which is far from the truth, but a chess coach has a built-in incentive to let them believe this myth.
