Chess Can Determine Intelligence

Reporters do not come flocking in my direction when it comes to an expert opinion of what is intelligence or the necessary information needed to arrive at a solution for a problem complex or simple as it may be. The smartest man alive I know of is a talk show host formerly of KGO radio 810 of San Francisco a former physics professor at UC Berkeley. Although he does not play chess he could talk the talk of science and technology to plain every day people like myself in simple English. Chess is not a cognitive test for intelligence because a player can practice for this game legend for the beauty of this game for centuries now applied to computers faster and smarter than the best human chess player of the highest rating or rank. We all know this by now but I didn't know it until the big showdown between IBM Deep Blue and the top rated human chess player. I was a very low rated chess player and I am still such a low rated chess player but I would take my turn being thrashed by a 1600 rated human chess player until I practiced against chess playing computers. I learned a little enough to reach an ultimate dream and that was to beat this better player of all the chess players I knew except for Walter Browne. Bobby Fischer had a better game the legend chess player but make no bones about it Walter Browne is a living chess legend as of today. Let us face it the more games one practices the better the chances of being a better chess player and the better the chances are of being called smart. Chess is the most skilled games of many maybe not the most but it is up there if not already there the game has been around. For me to be a better player I would need countless and unending practice if I could capitalize on the game and make efficient use of my time. But the relentless time it takes for the right practice at this online chess game only tortures me and makes me more resistant toward the game as you have witness having read this blog on chess. As I said before I believe in the Magnus Carlsen way the top player and that is to have other interests not just chess. The game can consume a poor soul to the point of addiction and this is not good. It isn't healthy. But I believe I can help other chess players become better players even though my game isn't of the highest rated caliber after all was it not the great genius coach Bill Walsh of the Forty Niners who coached his team to the Super Bowl many times over and made a dynasty of it even though he himself Bill Walsh was not himself a good football player in his days? Bill Walsh and I had a great time discussing his coaching style in contrast to the famed John Madden of the Oakland Raiders who was so charged up during the games his emotions could be read quite emphatically by all his rants and raves along the side lines. But Bill would not do that but instead admittedly remained calmly along the sidelines calling the shots in his most serene manner. It was to my delight that he revealed his style and manner of coaching to me a man who almost knew nothing about football. But online chess games against rated players? I'm not that good but I have played and totaled over three thousand games having won more than half of them if that means anything.