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This is a video cut from "Trick of The Mind" series aired in the UK. The clip here is taken directly from Season 1 -- Episode 1.
This is one of my favorite segments done by Derren. It explains for the most part how he did achieve the feat, and the trick is quite clever. Don't get too hung up on the ending though; it's merely a trick.
I've got all of Derren's work on my computer, and if you're interested in somehow obtaining the information, email me at tranceriver@gmail.com and we'll talk.
Cheers

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@sailingintosunshine 9 лет назад

nicee, "have been analysing your gus game for a year, ... what's your name?" xD

@IvoMiniMylk 8 лет назад

hahhahaha so true xD

@Gottenhimfella 8 лет назад

I saw a simpler way to rig this a decade or two back: the chessboards were arranged in a hotel lobby around a large solid diameter circular column, so no player could see the adjacent games. The trickster walked around the outside, from board to board, and only had to remember one move, because the layout meant that he did not have to separate the players who were playing each other.The other way he made it easy on himself was to have an even number of players. This simplified hustle would not require any chess playing skill whatsoever to "win" half the games against the world's best, and makes minimal demands on memory.

@ChessNetwork 14 лет назад

I wonder if any of them found it odd that he'd wait at their board for them to move, and then walk away before moving himself. I imagine yes.

@MasterShadowEroticHypnosis 6 лет назад

And, if he has to wait for the other player to move, it means he would have to go around 2-3x for every move at least. Probably way more. Which made the whole thing seem really weird to chess pros.

@TTArt 6 лет назад

Omg. An ancient Jerry comment on a random chess video! Almost feels like I've found a hidden treasure.

@absolutezero6190 2 года назад

@@TTArt wow that’s crazy actually

@xadrezbrasil 5 месяцев назад

Not to say those opposing colors lol

@MrRainandThunderrelaxingsounds 9 лет назад

1:59 I love how he says he has been reading all of their transcripts, but he didn't bother learning their names... not that it's important, but still. Makes the lie more believable.

@SpreadTriad 10 лет назад

I think the mistake in the "prediction" is not an accident. The paper inside the envelope had a 6 on the front of it all along. With some excellent sleight of hand, Derren sticks the paper with the rest of the numbers to the piece of paper with the 6 which the chess player is holding. So the piece with the 6 never leaves the man's hand and the 6 is in sight the whole time. I'm guessing 6 is statistically the most likely number of pieces left on a chess board when a game is over. Derren got quite lucky, because he was only one off. Ofcourse, he would have been REALLY lucky if that player had had exactly 6 pieces left :-)

@logaritym1 9 лет назад

***** I don't understand why he didn't make the trick with 100% though - there was a game which finished with 6 pieces, he could just use it instead of applying the prediction "6" to the game which finished with 7 pieces.

@drhosearmando 9 лет назад

+Artur Kirkoryan To make it more real and appearing as some kind of an imperfect skill rather than trick

@TJankris 7 лет назад

The tables were numbered, he couldn't change the order as he wanted...

@danielbriggs991 9 месяцев назад

My guess is that Derren managed to get Graham Lee on table #1 in on the trick. And he didn't play table 1 v. table 5, he played table 5 v. table 9. So when Derren used sleight of hand opening the letter, Graham didn't protest since he was in on the trick. The mistake at the beginning serves to deflect attention away from Graham. OK I'm sorry, after looking at the results, it couldn't have been exactly like that. But is it possible Derren somehow brought two games back to Graham--one they played on the table, and another they signaled to each other based on game #9? It's not unheard of for a master to play two games at once, especially when one of them is against the president of a chess club who is not ranked.

@NeedsContent 10 лет назад

Chess players hate him, but you can use this one weird trick.

@Prometheus4096 10 лет назад

Chess players learned him this trick/ he did a google search and copied their method.

@patrikmanni3559 10 лет назад

Prometheus4096 What? No... The trick was playing them against each other and beating one of them. Also, I don't mean to be rude at all, but it's 'taught' not 'learned' if you're looking for the past tense of someone teaching something to someone else.

@Prometheus4096 10 лет назад

Patrik Manni Yes. It is an old well known trick among chess players. Has been used several times by correspondence chess players. And 'to teach' and 'to learn' are two different verbs. No idea why you are confused about that.

@patrikmanni3559 10 лет назад

Prometheus4096 You said "Chess players learned him...". That makes no sense. It's supposed to be "Chess players taught him..." or "He learnt this trick from...".

@Prometheus4096 10 лет назад

Patrik Manni cool story bro

@TheWiseDisguise 9 лет назад

He said his chess game was shit, yet he can still beat the president of the chess club at London college. Hah. Ok.

@idogtv 9 лет назад

You watched the whole video, right?

@MrBoringCanada 9 лет назад

Josh S Did either of YOU two watch the whole video? At the end of the video he said he was playing one real game at table 9, which we won.

@Checkm8isFEELINGood 9 лет назад

Steven Axe Lol two idiots

@ajaiakaoaosnaiansjaoanskak 9 лет назад

Josh S Are you stupid? Jesus.

@poiyurtusqwetruyion7627 8 лет назад

+Albert Lovejoy No, he's just trying a terrible backtrack.

@zombienugget 15 лет назад

You can see exactly how he does the numbers trick if you pay close attention when he takes the folded up paper from the chess guy. When he takes it, he hides it behind another folded up paper, and then keeps it hidden between the paper as it is unfolded. It's sleight of hand.

@shadowdagger2 15 лет назад

That was great. The moment he said divide them into pairs I got it right away. Freaking genius.

@hthought 9 лет назад

Funny how none of the players found it normal for some games to be played with the white and some with the black pieces by Darren. Darren should be getting the white pieces in all games, per normal procedure.

@richarddawkinscoinedthewor2318 6 лет назад

hthought that wouldn't change much. There's a way to transform the boards colours backwards in your brain. Just mirror and flip then invert the colours

@jessesipprell8287 5 лет назад

@@richarddawkinscoinedthewor2318 It's not about color, it's about who moves first. White always makes the first move, thus mirroring an opponent against another opponent becomes effectively impossible unless their starting order is also mirrored.

@richarddawkinscoinedthewor2318 5 лет назад

@@jessesipprell8287 riiight, thanks

@airplane4242 5 лет назад

I promise you they knew. They were just playing along.

@masondrool 15 лет назад

I would find a task like this incredibly difficult catering to only 2 pairs of games. To do that with four pairs while SIMULTANEOUSLY playing a real game of chess is absolutely stunning. This man's mental capacity is mind-blowing.

@GoSolar 11 лет назад

I'd still love to see an explanation for how he predicted the numbers at the end. And I don't believe him entirely about the 9th player.

@BalasubramanianSharma 9 лет назад

I thought about this since this is already done in one of the Sidney Sheldon's Novel

@ilax3071 10 лет назад

just a normal guy lieing in the streets 9:37

@ploopybear 5 лет назад

@dreamcanvas5321 2 года назад

I figured out what he was doing as soon as I saw half the players had opposite colors, but the execution and the additional trick of "predicting" pieces left over were excellent showmanship.

@psyguysays 13 лет назад

5:56 "One of SEVERAL memory feats that I was indulging in" Cheeky.

@monsieurbreakyourpc 10 лет назад

6:01 "I don't wanna touch you" *five seconds later* Touches arm at 6:06

@ostkartong 10 лет назад

"I don't wanna touch it" aka the envelope. And he doesn't either (touch the envelope that is). So all is well.

@DanCicala 9 лет назад

ostkartong I know nothing about magic, but some kinda weird something goes on from 6:18 - 6:21. During that time, he's actually physically holding the papers in his hand, directing how exactly how it's unfolded, etc, using the 6 (the number he got wrong) as a shield. 3 seconds seems like an eternity in the world of sleight of hand. Also, whether he's technically lying is probably completely meaningless because all of that, "As you can see, there are no mirrors," type of talk that magicians do is just a misdirection anyway. Who cares that he never touches the envelope? It seems to have successfully distracted us from the fact that he unnecessarily grasps and spins and unfolds the paper itself, even though the assistant is probably wholly capable of unfolding a piece of paper.

@tracehd1RideFree 10 лет назад

We're all adults here right? Fucking brilliant!!!

@RsRhinodoe 9 лет назад

im not, im 14

@tracehd1RideFree 9 лет назад

Greenzy Then disregard any words that are offensive...😳😉😉

@moonlighcat135 14 лет назад

He secretly mirrored their moves on a different board. So basically it like the grandmasters are playing them selves.

@thelordofdarkcheese 12 лет назад

I would love to hear him say "These are not the droids you are looking for."

@andreassund5538 9 лет назад

Brown probably payed Chan off here.... Chans rated 1500 and that aint that bad.. to be sure to win derren would have to be around 1700+ and that while remembering all the moves on the other tables. Many players play for years without reaching 1700 + rating so Chan was likely bribed..

@andreassund5538 9 лет назад

Andreas sUND or brainfuked in advance

@betimsi 9 лет назад

That cringe worthy laugh at 4:29 though

@saintpine 13 лет назад

@tassay You’re right, but the pro’s would understand they were playing a poor game. But I was mistaken, I understand how he did it, the players did effectivaly play between each other. Table 1: memorize player 1’s move Table 5: Play player 1’s move Wait for player 5 to play memorize player 5’s move Table 1: Play player 5’s move Wait for player 1 to play Got to the start.

@KD_Rio_Version1 14 лет назад

Holy smokes, that is a very clever way to simultaneously play nine games of chess -- four against grandmasters -- and come out on top overall. It's something that I now want to try, as that was just... wow. Clever.

@mychannel594 10 лет назад

This supports my theory that most RU-vid video titles are lies. (in this one, the lie is that he beats the 9 players- obviously false to anyone who's watched the video) #MostRU-vidVideoTitlesAreLies

@anlaaranilde 10 лет назад

He beat them overall in a group. It wasn't through skill but through deceit. That still counts as a win.

@mychannel594 8 лет назад

Ilysanth Amaranthine The title says he beat 9 players simultaneously. That's a lie. It might count as one win but certainly not nine.

@timurnurmagambetov8658 9 лет назад

this could be done better with radio micro-earphone and a computer computers nowadays play better than top humans, so they can beat average grandmaster easily get an assistant who would watch through hidden camera, input human moves into computer and tell magician which peace to move and you dont even need to know chess rules

@feels.like.coffee 9 лет назад

Seems plausible. The only issue is that even an average chess hobbiest can tell they are playing against a computer after a dozen or so moves, let alone grandmasters.

@5up3rj 9 лет назад

Well, that depends on what you mean by better. It wasn't about beating people at chess most efficiently, it was about what he was able to do by memory.

@stackered 9 лет назад

David Xu then just have a grandmaster or two correcting that in the background as well

@kristyandphillip2582 9 лет назад

Timur Nurmagambetov The point was that he wasn't using a radio or mic.

@joaopedromorand6427 9 лет назад

David Xu What gives the computer away?

@SaySimonSaid 12 лет назад

This chess thing was just a snippet of a longer Derren Brown episode. Thanks for the upload!

@purpledino64 15 лет назад

it takes skill to remember all those moves, and derren brown has that skill

@hockeystar78 12 лет назад

It's part of a TV show, and throughout the show he would call payphones and make them fall asleep. This is one of them.

@Empyreangg 15 лет назад

thats a very nice strategy and actually im very impressed

@gtg309v 15 лет назад

Each pair is essentially playing each other. He is just moving the pieces for them.

@geevow 15 лет назад

you can say whatever you want but i think this is brilliant

@goldifying 11 лет назад

Had to re watch because the ending just blew me away for its simplicity.

@RobPowellIIVIIIIX 12 лет назад

Probably my favorite Derren Brown. I love proper planning and preparation and the high you get when you succeed, not the recognition you get for doing it but being recognized that you did it. You know what I mean?

@Alecxace 12 лет назад

I figured he was doing that when I heard the comments of the players. But damn that's some impressive memory

@UnholyMasterOfMetal 14 лет назад

This is a known trick amongst chess players. I am suprised the GMs didn't suspect this.

@SoylentGreeeen 15 лет назад

I love how he explains the obvious trick but not the one that makes you really wonder.

@CHOCOLATIONZ 14 лет назад

In the beginning ,I did notice that some players play white, the others play black, but I've never thought of this trick! Derren, you are genius!

@Rigas1997 12 лет назад

At the same time, it's his turn to play on one of the boards and his opponent's turn to play in the other board. They are using different colors, he's not playing at the same color in both to allow his opponent to make different options.

@CtrlAltDft 12 лет назад

Dude I love your channel, awesome that you came across the video I'm watching.

@odee9223 9 лет назад

If I had a billion dollars, I'd spend 100 mill to have Darren brown teach me for 3 months. The rest I'd donate to charity.

@Cellkist 9 лет назад

+odee There are many better teachers of Chess then Darren. I hope you meant teach you at chess, otherwise this comment is irrelevant.

@olivialiv7930 8 лет назад

+Cellkist He just played 9 masters simultaneously and beat them all as a collective AND predicted the number of pieces left even before the game started. And its Derren..

@Cellkist 8 лет назад

Olivia liv It was a trick dear.

@firebirdx01 13 лет назад

the chessmasters only need to talk about the game they played with each other and then realize what he did.

@shamsael 15 лет назад

Further, the masters were seated with their backs to each other.

@GustafSjoblom 15 лет назад

Make no mistake, they did to. This is a very well known and easy to think of trick that everyone who has played a decent amount of chess would have both though about themselves or heard about. Everyone in the room knew what was going on, the only thing I'm surprised about is that the GM's were pretty decent at pretending to be fooled.

@SuperMerlot 11 лет назад

Also the the player giving the simultaneous exhibition makes his move immediately after the player made it.

@tbiehl1 14 лет назад

"as for how i predicted the number of pieces on each board....i genuinely cant remember" win

@thehauntedchair 13 лет назад

The video should say "Derren Brown plays 9 top chess players simultaneously, and comes out ahead."

@sharetherainbows 12 лет назад

Having played a lot of chess, and not being too shabby at it, I new his trick the second the cameras showed the boards alternating. I knew at some level he was just mimicking games. Brilliant trick though!

@jk59beads 15 лет назад

This trick has been around for a long time (or so I've gathered from reading the comments), but watching it the first time it pretty funny.

@shawandrew 13 лет назад

as for the numbers, I think there are 2 strong possibilities. 1. He chose random numbers and tried to make them fit, but failed. 2. he did something when he helped the chess master open the package that he gave him.

@guybunce 11 лет назад

The secret to this one is ripped straight out of the seminal text on mentalism by Corinda

@cheetah219 12 лет назад

@Darth814Vader keep in mind he claims he was playing one real game of chess, but at the same time he was getting a variety of moves and ideas from grand/international masters. Also, Derren has exceptional memory (the average human can only remember 7 things at once, and he was able to remember 8 while playing a game of real chess). Derren probably has studied chess quite be on par with great players and felt confident in his playing ability.

@goblinman7 15 лет назад

Sure thing In modern day chess involving games played by advanced and tournament/club players, White wins about 34.7% while black wins about 24.4% of all games. The remaining 40.9 are Drawn games. There have been many studies into this concept past and present. If it came down to one game to sway the balance of the decision for Derren in this clip, being white gave him an edge. Not a guarantee mind you, but he was aware of this without question.

@jesperhn 12 лет назад

It's not about figuring out the trick, it's about using his technics, which he also describe in his book; "Derren Brown - Tricks of the Mind". It's about memorising patterns, and how to use them.

@PomBare 15 лет назад

I suppose this is a worthy explanation. Derren must be applauded that merely another one of the strings to bow is good enough to beat a man who's soley dedicated to chess

@ensilver1 13 лет назад

@JDoucette I think the lighting in the room is meant to keep each players attention on THEIR board.

@mithat90 12 лет назад

Seriously are you freaking kidding me with not remembering??? That was the whole bit for me! :D

@Rigas1997 12 лет назад

He just remember the move someone plays and repeat it on the other board. Then, after his opponent replies with his own move, he repeats that move on the other board, and so on. For example, his opponent starts with e4. He doesn't have to respond immediately, so he just moves on. Then, when he gets to the board that's paired with the board in which the player started with e4, he also plays e4. And then, he copies whatever his opponent's response is back on the other board when he gets there.

@ianng9572 11 лет назад

He was actually mirroring the top Grandmaster twice, once towards the corresponding table, and once with table 9. Derren probably actually studies his style and tie him up with someone really similar, top chess players have similar opening moves and that way the two table can deviate as late as possible, if that make sense to you guys.

@migrated4568 15 лет назад

I agree. The last guy, Robert Chan is president of king's college London, chess society, so he is the head of a club or something of the sort. So that case, you have to be looking at him being somewhere around the 1600-1800+ range ELO. Derren Brown must be somewhere around there to beat him.

@fureetutawk3604 11 лет назад

I really enjoyed this. They were actually playing each other, he was merely exhibiting a fantastic ability to remember things. As for the prediction of number of pieces left, that was his magician persona tossed in for fun. He pulled a trick on that one somehow or another, lol.

@ChessNetwork 14 лет назад

HE was 1 move ahead of them all. :)

@YsnipezYMw2 13 лет назад

@Tweakisher no they would eventually play a different move and even if he then went to the other board and play the same move, he would possibly get a different result depending on how far into the game he was going.

@xdragon2k 14 лет назад

@NameMoon I think you're up to something there. Most magician wanted some kind of recognition of magical power that they possess after the performance they did. Otherwise, there is no point of doing these performances. The reason he gives away the "secret" of his success is because he wants us to think that these were legitimate chess games while in fact each game was all pre-memorized by each players. Yeah, good touch on the number "6" mistake. It makes most of us a believer.

@pallybynight 15 лет назад

Its important to also see that this could be done on any number of people at the same time. as long as you can remember 2 digts for each game skipped (the notation of the move) I dont think there is a pocket trick with the number. It is 2 sided to be sure, 1 number is wrong (which happens to be the game he actually played). Most obvious explination I can think of is by looking at end game positions of games recorded for that specific player.

@PamMcElprang 14 лет назад

LOVE darren brown, wish his show was still on

@Wolvus1 4 года назад

i knew it was going to be having them play each other but the numbers, thats the trick i really want to know

@SHONSL 13 лет назад

6:17 the moment when he comes back he tug onto the paper, its at this moment he executes a good-ole-magician trick, thus making it seem like he predicted a numbers, the mirror chess setup was a very great system he discovered, that is amazing

@SpungeySays 12 лет назад

Oh that is bull! He can remember ALL THAT, but can't remember how he predicted the remaining pieces! Well, good sir, I call bull.

@lewiszim 14 лет назад

As a chess player I can tell you right now that he didn't just pick up techniques from the other players. Chess is a very complicated, time intensive game, it takes hours upon hours of study just to get a slight edge. He must have had knowledge of how to play chess.

@mikeycute00 13 лет назад

that is one awesome memory he got.

@goblinman7 15 лет назад

In a way Darren is like a referee in the middle. A variant known as Blind chess takes this where there are 2 players and a referee between them. Each player only sees a board with their own pieces on the board and makes a move. The referee makes this move on the middle board which has both white and black pieces on it. The ref goes over to blacks table and than Black moves. Hard to checkmate because you can only see your own pieces and hope for the best...

@rythgg 12 лет назад

Whatever move player #1 does, he will do against player #2. the reaction of player #2 he will do against player #1. Then repeat that process so basicly player #1 and #2 are playing against eachother. It doesn't matter what move they do, he will always copy it.

@StijnHommes 13 лет назад

@Rimber6 You don't get it. He never really opened. On the boards where he was white, he played the moves his opponents on the other side of the room played before him.

@Petertunes 12 лет назад

It's cutting back to the segment where he was making people fall asleep whenever they picked up a public telephone.

@djsvrlaivwfofj 11 лет назад

He is talking about losing a piece of his at one board while it survives on another.

@hthought 11 лет назад

"I have been trying to familiarize myself with your games for a year. Gonna gives this...What's your name ?"

@Nocuras 15 лет назад

One way he could have done the trick with the number is to simply guess (with the help of some analysis like "what opening will he most likely play etc.) and if the number is close enough (one wrong) reveal it, otherwise look for nine other players and do the whole show again. He used this "trick" in another episode when he convinced several people they'd guess the right horses and only showed the one person who won on tv.

@Abdouliia 13 лет назад

i luv how he said " as for how i've predicted the number of pieces left on each board i genuinely can't remember xD

@Bobstew68 13 лет назад

I've seen some people claim very confidently that the numbers on the long paper at the end was a sleight of hand trick, that he switched it when he grabbed it after Graham Lee took it out of the envelope, but that's not true. You can see some of the numbers on there before he touches it, if you look closely. Graham had already unfolded it some and looked. Also, some claim it's a statistical trick, which is silly.

@Bliced 14 лет назад

@BillMan2002 he explains in the video, there is a pattern to each player he goes against, he just repeats another players move against another player, in other words he is a vessel for a chess match between different players.

@htgnef 15 лет назад

It is quite possible that he, if he had been studying the games, never saw a picture of them.

@whoslayedgoliath 14 лет назад

lol "i've been studying your games for A YEAR" then "what's your name?" hahahah

@keydetpiper 14 лет назад

Brilliantly simple when you think about it

@StijnHommes 13 лет назад

@SilentKek It couldn't have been up his sleeve. He only touched the paper to get the optimal dramatic effect. There was no switch.

@NoRefundsXD 13 лет назад

wow, thats pretty impressive to memorize all those moves.

@RobFight 15 лет назад

rewatch the video, he is basically just having them play eachother, and hes moving the other person peice for them

@GleamingBlade1 15 лет назад

Derren Brown didn't trick any grandmasters but he did trick a bunch of people who watched this into thinking he did.

@chickenyogurt 15 лет назад

I have to admit, despite how simple that trick is, that was great lol

@Peace7Maker 12 лет назад

He certainly just started to do random things after he reached the number he wanted... lol

@PaytonPierce 12 лет назад

This was a clip from a TV show, that would be the next segment of the show or even an advertisement I believe.

@superbuds0714 13 лет назад

all these types of masters. 4 wins. 3 losses 2draws. 1 rookie. 1 white lie. 1 magnificent video! : D

@metsrdabest 12 лет назад

it is impressive that he remember the moves, at least to me.

@TVLazarus 14 лет назад

"I've spent the last year familiarizing myself with your games... uh, what's your name?"

@SheepSlayer 15 лет назад

WOW the explanation is brilliant

@Chubearishere 15 лет назад

I think you're definitely right on that but still, I can't help but be thoroughly impressed. lol

@MichaelCiuffo 14 лет назад

That would require more memory. If 6 played 7, then he would have to remember 7's response all the way around until he got back to six.

@thirion1850 10 лет назад

On the numbers thing - my theory is as he said in the beginning really, "I studied your individual play styles". Note how the tables were specifically set up to criss-cross grandmasters against eachother, leaving the "weakest" opponent for the host to face personally. They could have easily set up matches on who's chess styles can work against their individual "match-ups", thus predicting where the match will go based on the opening move and follow-up from pair to pair. But then this would mean they also predicted when some of the masters would concede rather than continue the game, so the amount of pieces would still be left on the board would still be left uncertain-- one of which turned out to be wrong (7 rather than 6). Brilliant show.

@joeldick6871 2 года назад

"An average player sees two moves ahead; a grandmaster can see twenty." It doesn't work like that. Average players and grandmasters look ABOUT the same number of moves into the future, but the grandmasters consider the best moves that the average players wouldn't even consider.