>>11967281Yes, while this means that chess is not necessarily that correlated with intelligence, Hikaru is a special case. He's been taught chess since he was a child, the ammount of manhours he's put into chess is so massive it honestly had to effect his brain to make it very receptive to intricate chess patterns, not necessarily any other ones, but at least chess patterns.
The average persons speed while solving chess problems might honestly be a much better indicator of chess proficiency than playing highly memorizable game sequences.
