There is nothing special about chess players that indicates there IQ's are higher than normal. Chess is not a measure of intelligence. They perform well, being some IQ tests rely heavily on spatial recognition. IQ's above 180 are extremely rare, seen by possibly by only a dozen individuals. Carlsen has never taken an IQ test that has been ...

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Despite breaking all sorts of records as a chess prodigy, top 100 GM Hou Yifan insists that chess is for her just a hobby, and she wants a "real life". She was a full-time student in international relations at Peking University, then a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in public policy.

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8 of her 10 pairings were with women. This was either deliberate or a very, very unlikely coincidence. Since I don't have access to the method by which the players were paired (and probably, neither do you) it's impossible to reasonably conclude one way or the other from my living room, but let me just say that if this is the result of sexism, it is extremely shameful.

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Hou yifan Master games 10 Women's world chess championship 8 2011 7 Ruy lopez 3 Sicilian defence 2 Queen's gambit 2 Declined 2 Carlsen, magnus 1 2014 1 French defence 1 Game analysis 1 2010 1 2015 1 Rossolimo attack 1 Tata steel chess 1

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