As an instructor, it has always been a question in my mind that how IQ or other similar tests can assess students or ordinary people’s intelligence level. One of the most challenging games in the world that requires a lot of calculations, fast memorization, or fast recalling of the moves is called chess. Chess is a game that is played between two people and after every move, there are thousands of possibilities that your opponent can play, therefore you as a player need to calculate all of those moves and move your piece to the appropriate square. The following clip explains how chess is played and complicated it is to learn and play the game.

The game of chess is one of the games in the world that requires natural talents, in addition to a powerful memory, fast recalling process, a lot of practice, etc. The following clip explains that how the world champion Magnus Carlsen is still a world champion, how he keeps up with thousands of moves, how does he defeat thousands of people, and how he can think so fast than the rest of the people.

The question I always had was how can one assess the ability of a chess player, how should we know from a child’s IQ level from his or her childhood that he or she can be one of the world’s best players. Would an IQ test be able to help us identify the world’s next best player? Is it even possible to measure some one’s intelligence while being a child? The answer is yes and no, according to some it is impossible to measure a child’s intelligence level unless it is obvious or apparent. The father of Magnus who was also a teacher was able to identify some of the things his son could or could not perform in his childhood, for example, he noticed that his son could not jump from a simple rope as other children could easily jump, or he noticed that when his son was only 5 he could memorize the names, capitals, and population all the countries around the world. To his dad, it was something normal but these were perhaps the signs that his son was more intelligent than other kids.

In the 2:53 minutes of this clip you can see Magnus’s difficulty trying to jump as other kids.

The point is, are these the signs that we can measure a child’s IQ or intelligence level or there should be a systematic or standardized test to measure. I do not have the answer to this question, but I think measuring some one’s IQ might be much complicated than simple tests. I think the way to learn things differently, our intelligence might also respond differently to different tests. I think there should be multiple tests to measure an individual's learned or built-in intelligence power and should be a process rather than just a test.

The following clip shows how chess calculation works. 

Is it possible to measure a child’s intelligence power? If yes then How would you measure it?

Reference: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAIQyoPcjNM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc_v9mTfhC8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL9LYaeX1I0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybrY9JWVBv4