Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sun, Jul 31, 2005 10:30 AM UTC:There is a lot of material available on the Internet. Correlation between ELO and IQ was suposed >.6 in the past, but it is only close to .2 in some studies. Regression curves shows prediction of modest higher IQ when higher ELO, if you pass from 1200 to 2500 ELO, the predicted difference in IQ is in average only 10 points, but due the little correlation, it is possible that the average difference in IQ is not the cause of the average difference in ELO, but perhaps, at least partially, the consequence. Chess practice has demonstrated IQ improvements in childs and young people, but with age, the effect seems to follow a decreasing tendence, as the ELO and IQ measures, which tend to decrease with age. After some reading I am concluding that Chess and board games practice can be good for making you moderately smarter, at least below the IQ measures appretiation, and it is independent of the mastering degree you reach, but don´t expect miraculous transformatios if you are not a boy. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Smarter? does not match any item.