Q Are there any women chess masters?—David Zwerling, Portland, Ore.
A While men dominated the game for centuries, the same social advances that brought the world a great influx of female athletes in the ’70s also gave us a spate of fresh female faces on the chess scene, such as the amazing Polgar sisters of Hungary—grandmasters Susan, 40, and Judit, 33, and international master Sofia, 34—all of whom have notched significant tournament victories over men.
Source: http://www.parade.com/celebrity/2009/09/personality-parade-80s-teen-stars.html
Here is an older article on Parade Magazine back in July 2005.
www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2565
Top 50 Smartest People
1 Albert Einstein
2 Bill Gates
3 Marie Curie
4 Stephen Hawking
5 Condoleezza Rice
6 Bill Clinton
7 Sandra Day O’Connor
8 Oprah Winfrey
9 Warren Buffett
10 Jane Goodall
11 Steven Spielberg
12 Dalai Lama
13 Sally Ride
14 George S. Patton Jr.
15 Jon Stewart
16 J.K. Rowling
17 Dr. Phil (McGraw)
18 Ben Carson
19 Susan Polgar
20 Pablo Picasso
21 Rosalyn Yalow
22 Linda Buck
23 Yo-Yo Ma
24 Johnny Carson
25 Georgia O’Keeffe
26 Katharine Graham
27 Mary Matalin
28 James Carville
29 Meryl Streep
30 Sergey Brin
31 Toni Morrison
32 Dr. Ruth (Westheimer)
33 Jackie Chan
34 Quincy Jones
35 Hayao Miyazaki
36 Maya Lin
37 Meg Whitman
38 Edward Albee
39 Pat Summitt
40 Wynton Marsalis
41 Mikhail Baryshnikov
42 Martha Graham
43 Ralph Lauren
44 Bette Davis
45 Antonia Novello
46 Allison Fisher
47 Frank Gehry
48 Mike Nichols
49 Annie Duke
50 Annika Sorenstam
I want to know, where is Magnus in all this? 🙂
rush limbaugh top 10%
I searched for the name of ex-president Georges W. Bush in this list, and I did not find anything. I then thought I would do a good joke about it… still trying to find something funny to say.
I think strongest chess grandmasters deserves to be ranked on top of a list of smartest people. I think between Einstein and Lasker, the latter was smarter.
‘Magnus in all this?’
Magnus is not very smart, he just memorized chess openings he bought from Kasparov. I doubt he would pass any serious IQ test.
‘I think between Einstein and Lasker, the latter was smarter.’
Think again.
According to chessmetrics.com, Lasker has the longest time as the number one dominating chess player in the history of chess. He is ranked number 1 292 differents months between June 1890 and December 1926.
I would say Einstein would not have done better if he would have given his life to chess.
I also think Freud was smarter than Einstein. Just my own opinion.
More interesting, according to this site (1) post on Nov 08, 2007, 5 out of 15 persons with the highest IQ’s on record are chess players. According to the same site: Fischer, Byrne, Judith Polgar and Kasparov have an IQ superior to Einstein.
(1) http://onemansblog.com/2007/11/08/the-massive-list-of-genius-people-with-the-highest-iq/
sorry 4 out of 15.
I finaly found a joke thanks to my previous posts: There are 3 sort of people in this world, those who can count, and those who can’t.
very funny ranking ,looooooooooool
Now seriously…why are most of them American???
Where’s Richard Feynman ?
Sure.. This list is brilliant 🙂
None of the top Mathematicians, majority Americans… Well, it only says few things about the ignoranse of the public as well as how dangerous is to let a poll judge about things that specialists know…
And since chess players got mentioned. Why not other top players? By which standards (other than people’s popularity) does the wide public says Byrne was smarter than say Capablanca, Rubinstein, or Karpov. (this is to judge people within same field to avoid other type ambiguities)
And ofcourse: Where are other top Physicists? (Newton, Feynman, Heisenberg, Bohr) Mathematicians? (Fermat, Galois, Rieman, Hilbert, Godel). But sure.. Mrs. Rice must be much smarter than those people (and Susan :-)).
The idea that Lasker was smarter than Einstein just shows the commenters perverse idea of intelligence. In 1905, Einstein wrote seminal papers in 4 separate ares of physics. There has not been any comparable achievement since.
Einstein felt that Lasker wasted his considerable intellect on chess.
Chessplayers will disagree with Einstein, of course, but others see his point.
Terrence Tao is the obvious choice for smartest person in the world today.
Grigori Perelman. Solver of the Poincare Conjecture. Winner of the Fields Medal and the Millennium prize, both of which he declined.
“Now seriously…why are most of them American???”
really, that’s all that bugs you? Stephen Hawking is 4th behind Bill Gates (a salesman) and just 2 ahead of Bill Clinton.
Show this list to anyone with a brain and have them guess what these people have in common, it won’t be their shared intelligence level.
The list is nonsense, Susan should be insulted.
Dr. Phil at #17. What more needs to be said about the list?
If Dr. Phil is #17, then a box of rocks could be #16.
To Anon 9:07
I think one should read Lasker’s bio on wikipedia and learn that Lasker did not just play chess (1).
(1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Lasker
I once had a doctor of mathematics for professor who was also near master level at chess, and I remember him saying something like: Mathematics is for relaxation, but chess, like Kasparov said, is mental torture.
Anon 1:13, It’s me, anon 9:07 again.
I know of Lasker’s mathematical acheivements—his Syzygy theorem is standard in texts on several complex variables today.
It is precisely because Einstein knew of Lasker’s ability in math that he was able to say that his chess was a waste of intellect.
If he had only been a chessplayer, Einstein would not have said the same thing.
Hello 9:07, I am 1:13
Maybe it’s better to play chess rather than helping humanity destroy itself.
Here is my favorite quote of Einstein: “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
I don’t think chessplayers are wasting anything.
Wow, you two managed to get from the samrtest people list to weapons and World War.
You two are geniuses!
LOL