Letter #15 -  2010

Sub:    Robert Fischer IQ
Date:   04/14/10  10:23:00 PM EDT
From:  Jewel_361
To:      service@Chess-poster.com

Hello,

Does anyone know the IQ of Bobby Fischer?

Thank you.

Dear viewer,

For Chess players, some sources list Bobby Fischer's IQ between 180 and 187. This was his Stanford-Binet score when he was at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn before he dropped out.

He was probably tested in 1958 at the age of 15. At the time, he was US Champion, which he won again in 1959.

He dropped out of high school around 1959. In 1988, British Grandmaster Jon Levitt came up with the Levitt equation. His equation says that a player with an IQ of Y, after many years of tournament play and study, would tend to have a Chess Elo rating of about 10Y + 1000.

So if Fischer's IQ was 180, then his Elo rating would be 10x180 + 1000 or 2800. Bobby Fischer's official Elo rating was 2785. His maximum USCF rating was 2825.

Source: Bill Wall

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