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Comment author: Bongo 15 October 2010 04:46:05PM *  2 points [-]

Baduk is the korean version of the board game Go. Expert players of it have below-average IQs on average.

"However, Baduk experts demonstrated slightly lower IQs than did controls (mean ± SD, 93.19 ± 10.42 for Baduk experts, 101.21 ± 13.11 for controls; t = -2.016, df = 32.910, p = 0.052) as estimated by the Korean version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (K-WAIS) (Kim and Lee, 1995), and a significant difference appeared between the two groups for level of education"

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Gwern said the same is true of chess but I don't have a source for that.

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