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Equating go skill with intelligence
Path: BadHabits · Prev: UsingJapaneseTermsWhenYouDonTKnowWhatTheyMean · Next: PlayingGoAtWork A bad habit I got into at one time was to consider my rank or skill as a sign of intelligence. It really isn't. Sadly, one of the first books I had read had done so, and I have messed myself up thinking I am unintelligent if I am bad at Go. --TimBrent
Bill: I don't think that you can say that a professional 9-dan is more intelligent than an amateur 10-kyu, in general. However, one aspect or kind of intelligence is the ability to visualize spatial relationships. In that regard most pros are probably better than most amateurs. Also, research suggests that pros utilize areas of the brain not typically devoted to memory to store go information. Whether you want to call that intelligence or not is another question. :-)
I used to play tournament bridge, and my impression is that good bridge players are quite good at non-monotonic reasoning, and many are good at probabilistic reasoning.
As for go players, my impression is that we (good and not so good) have a high tolerance for ambiguity. That is also an aspect of intelligence. Finally, as a group I find go players to be highly cultured, aside from any skill at the game. I cannot say that for other groups of intellectual game players. Path: BadHabits · Prev: UsingJapaneseTermsWhenYouDonTKnowWhatTheyMean · Next: PlayingGoAtWork This is a copy of the living page "Equating go skill with intelligence" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |