An Icelandic court said on Thursday that the widow of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer should inherit his estimated $2 million estate, which has been in dispute since his death in 2008.

Many chess fans consider Bobby Fischer to be the best chess player ever. In 1970 he won 20 consecutive matches in “1970 Interzonal”. He became World Chess Champion in 1972 after beating Boris Spassky in a match in Reykjavik. From 1972 on, Bobby Fischer stopped playing serious chess.

Bobby Fischer net worth or net income is estimated to be between $1 Million – $5 Million dollars. He has made such amount of wealth from his primary career as Chess Player.

Is The Queen’s Gambit based on a true story? The story itself is fictional and drawn from the 1983 coming-of-age novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, who died in August of 1984. Put plainly, Beth Harmon is not a real chess prodigy. Anya Taylor-Joy portrays Beth Harmon in Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit.

1966, Petrosian-Spassky: $2,000 In this era of Soviet dominance, the world chess championship was an internal affair.

On 9-12-1987 Hikaru Nakamura (nickname: The H Bomb) was born in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He made his 50 million dollar fortune with Winner of prestigious Laura Aspis Prize at the age of 13. The celebrity his starsign is Sagittarius and he is now 33 years of age.

Many chess players of all different levels do have high IQs of over 100 score. Some of our greatest chess players in history for example Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen have IQs well over 140 score.

The average IQ of a 13-year-old, or person of any other age, is 100. Normal IQ scores range from 85 to 115, and scores compare the performance of people within a given age group on a specific test. The test results are then normed and placed on a bell curve.

For the highest IQ participants, the drop in performance with age was precipitous– from about 75% correct to about 65% to close to 50% (floor), for college age, 60-74 year old, and 75-90 year old participants, respectively.

Anyone who’s scarfed down junk food when feeling overwhelmed (but not necessarily hungry) knows that stress doesn’t exactly cause humans to make the smartest decisions. But recent research shows that chronic financial stress doesn’t just cause you to make a few bad decisions – it can actually lower your IQ.

Tests commonly administered by school districts