Is a very good tennis player a genius? Some things simply can be trained and while extremely impressive, they have nothing to do with intelligence.<p>So far it does not appear to be possible to increase intelligence via training. You can increase some <i>proxies</i> for intelligence that way, for example memorization, or puzzle solving.<p>True intelligence is very hard to define, but I define it as the capacity to reason in a non-linear way. i.e. to reach a conclusion without any obvious steps that took you from a to b.