{"id":1910,"date":"2021-12-01T00:19:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T00:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chessquestions.com\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2022-07-15T22:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T22:46:21","slug":"magnus-carlsen-iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chessquestions.com\/magnus-carlsen-iq\/","title":{"rendered":"The IQ Tracking of Chess Grandmasters: Magnus Carlsen – Bobby Fischer – Garry Kasparov"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Magnus Carlsen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. He achieved the highest rating of 2882, as well as became the youngest person to hold that title. Magnus became a chess prodigy at an early age, first being taught by his father aged 5 or 6 years old but finding himself disinterested he didn’t take it up again until age 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what about Magnus Carlsens’ IQ compared with other Grandmasters<\/a> like Bobby Fischer and how much truth is there in claims both have an IQ score of around 190?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Magnus Carlsen has explained he has no interest in taking an IQ test, and indeed if he has, he is no rush to reveal what it might be, so reports of an IQ score of 190 would seem to be nothing more than wishful speculation and an attempt to pretend to know something the man himself doesn’t even possess the knowledge of.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n All of this was backed up in a 2010 interview<\/a> when the then 19-year-old stated he didn’t want to know for fear of being too clever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So let’s take a closer look at a lot of questions surrounding IQ scores and chess playing<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carlsen:<\/strong> I have no idea. I wouldn’t want to know it anyway. It might turn out to be a nasty surprise.<\/p>Magnus Carlsen<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n Before we self indulgently delve into arming ourselves with useless information and speculation of chess players IQ and the correlation between IQ ability and chess playing skills, let us remind ourselves of the average Intelligence Quotients test results score in the US<\/p>\n\n\n\n The average American Adult IQ test score result is between 85-115, that is to say the majority of grown Americans, that is 68% are within one standard deviation of the mean result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So what does that mean on the entire scale? I shall use the neutrally termed Stanford–Binet Fifth Edition (SB5) classification, to give this discussion page some context<\/p>\n\n\n\nAverage IQ Score<\/h2>\n\n\n\n