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by silvestrov 1117 days ago
Definitely.

From article: "Participants were asked to identify logical rules in a series of patterns"

The more intelligent you are, the more different rules you can come up with for a pattern. It then becomes a task of figuring out which rule the interviewer thinks is the (only) correct one.

Magnus Carlsen does not move his pieces faster than bad chess players. He thinks thru more creative options and see more useful "edge cases" than the bad players.