Magnus Carlsen Solves Chess Positions WITHOUT Seeing The Pieces 

same here how can I even sleep after that.

Why is there only one answer?

Not as ridiculous as this ratio

And he sacrifices.....

Checkers pieeeeeece

"Truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense"

And then gets slightly annoyed by himself when he's not 100% sure what the best move is 10 moves further.

He's probably forgotten more about chess than most avid chess players remember.

Let's just say he gives occasional tips to Stockfish.

@@Johncornwell103 for sure. im so sad that this legend has no interesst in playing world championships any more

​@@Johncornwell103 I'd say that, but I don't think this man is capable of forgetting anything.

@@johnb.3570 you're probably right

I got 5/5 when I was just 9 years old; He’s a grown man I expect so much more from magnet

@@vazorta 💀

​@@vazortaMagnum sucks

@@vazorta lmao Magnet

😅😅

Lol

yes

You are not alone 99.99998 % of population of people is with you

*@ngare.k:* _I’m disgusted that I can’t remember my chess position 2 moves ago._ Join the club! 🤣🤣🤣

I belong to the same category😂😂😂

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Quantistic chess

witty

Nice.

@@gioelesnider9402 bombastic chess

My mom’s reaction was PRICELESS

Yeah, this shit is nuts. The guy is superhuman.

Who told you Magnus is human?

Magnus saying he doesnt really follow the World Championship is like those kids who said that they didnt study yet always get 100

@@ariavachier-lagravech.6910 so true lol

Crazy Order😅

Magnus who gets humbled by magnus

If it’s any consolation, you humble people that humble people that humble people like me. I’m a very small fish in the sea of chess.

He has no brain. That's a full grown computer processor.

Who get humbled by stockfish or alphazero

At his level it's probably easy.

inhuman*

@@moistmellow1198 Inhumane treatment of the airthings modules.

@@moistmellow1198 Confidently Incorrect.

It's not inhuman if a human can do it.

@@vlurpjuice8620 in their context, they meant inhuman as in it shouldn’t be something humans can do. Inhumane is illogical in this context, so I am confidently correct.

Not too crazy as he said, this game is far too famous. Kasparov/ Fischer's immortals would have been seen by most chess lovers.

@@jackywong4956 you probably wouldn't even remember your position from a game from yesterday

@@opside231 lmao true

@@opside231I don’t remember a game from 10 minutes ago

@@opside231 probably because they’re garbage, but could easily remember Kasparov/ Fischer’s immortal

Theres a good chance he limited his thinking to purely actual games, its a bit unfair to test him on a position that never even happened

I think it would be like when professor Xavier tried to get inside DeadPool's head. DP was so crazy that Xavier couldn't handle it.

​@keithg460 What happened was that Xavier realized they were only a comic book since Deadpool is able to break the 4th wall. Xavier realized they were just entertainment for comic readers and had a brain aneuyrism

True

Well, that was a fictional game though, wasn't it? :P

@@ChristomirRackov It was actually a real game that they chose to put on the show. Not a famous game though.

@@tellahsage6477 I think they changed the line from the real game... But yeah, you do have a point - it's not 100% fictional. :)

Absolutely

I'm pretty sure they can.

Hikaru can. Actually, all super GMs can.

@@mathematicianjefferson a GM yes, not a super GM

@@DzFarid I m pretty sure they can't apart from vishy Anand.

synaesthesia

@@vandpibenI can see where you’d think that but basically all the grandmasters can do this 💀

​@@Omnius-777nah, supergms sure

@@Omnius-777 ONLY SUPERGMS

Alright I understand-

😂

Lol! 😂

Funnily enough, I think that most of the games in the show are based on actual famous games, but at some point it goes in a different side line where something interesting and dramatic happens. Also, the position in the video was basically an endgame, as he said, the fewer pieces there are, the more difficult it is

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Yeah hopefully but idk

Even with that, we won't. He would look at the ceiling to find the game.

​@@zenlanfleek6580you mean hikaru?

He would just answer "every game" as no pieces yet

hopefully 💀

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Because they deceived him. It wasn't a real game.

@@masters.1000 yeah it was a bit mean haha

Or he is in fact not a human and his database just doesn't cover fictitious games.

Remembering positions would be easy compared to this. Here you have to discover/guess the game based on just color and position. David did pick games that had something unique about the position but still...

blindfolded would of made is like 10 times easier due to the fact they would tell him which positio nthe pieces are in

@@Purpelxd Would have, would have, would have, would HAVE, would. fucking. HAVE. I'm going to lose my mind.

I don't think it is fair to count the last position as is wasn't even a real game. It's basically like forgetting the solution to a puzzle. If it was from a real World Championship game, or any famous real game, I am sure Magnus would have figured it out.

Same here. I have a "photographic memory so i can remember them like pictures but i still couldnt tell you what it is from the structure alone. He is litterally insane.

@@ninjasheeps3690perhaps this is the next stage above photographic minds. Just sheer brilliance in the head and brain.

@@ninjasheeps3690" Eidetic memory"

@@jupiterwarrior2645 thats why i put a lil ' *"* '

even so just say eidetic lol photographic memory is yet to exist @@ninjasheeps3690

I don't think he'll return to classical. To me he seems he got too bored of that. That's why he's playing so many rapid, blitz and bullet nowadays.

On it 🤝

How does White win?

We are talking about Magnus Carlsen here. That sacrifice is kinda easy to see even for a patzer like myself and probably like the least impressive thing Carlsen has done.

Magnus : I'm waiting for the camera, I got it.

😂😂

Yes. It's not only his inhuman memory, which he has, but the level of pattern recognition he possess.

Indeed, a study was done testing strong chess players' memory of board positions, and the player immediately struggled when the position had more than 32 pieces on the board, because it doesn't make sense in the "language". I always think of their pattern recognition like how we can recognise words even if they are slightly misspelled, meaning someone like Magnus can identify key positional concepts from a game, even if he hasn't seen the exact board position before. And when it comes to identifying the game, imagine how if we combine four or five words into a chunk of a song-lyric, we can recognise it immediately even though we have heard thousands of songs in our lives. "You know the rules and so do I" are some pretty generic lyrics, but chances are you recognised it right away even though you weren't born when the song came out.

​@@kimaboe yeah, I agree, but I must confess that your Rick Rollled example did not work with me XD But I am peculiar person who never pays attention to lyrics, not even the ones that are in my native language. But I can recognize most of them by hearing few notes from their melody. I drop the pianist example, because I am an amateur pianist my self, I notice many times how easy is for me to see the first 20 notes of a song and remember all of them just watching them play once, instead someone who does not play piano, I see them fail with just 4 notes. The reverse happen when I try to do what my friends do with their respective talents. It is incredible how our brain adapts and learn how to relate all info in order to extract the best predictions and analysis.

@@kimaboe Hey thanks. Sometimes I forget that I have this ability (rustier now but still mostly there) to just glance at a page full of text and have my eyes land precisely on any small errors in some instant automatic way, from growing up super adept at reading and writing and editing. I don't have a lot of superpowers really but I forgot how good I usually am at that, and you just caused me to feel a lot smarter and more proud of myself than I've felt lately, especially since I've mostly been working on learning lots of things I'm not good at yet XD I appreciate you using that example and causing me to realize "Oh yeah! I AM good at some stuff!" lol

@@aleks-wy6uf To be fair, IQ is an absolutely garbage metric that doesn't really have much actual scientific value. Tests for it are incredibly inconsistent in design and administration, and it really doesn't do anything like a decent job of actually cross-sectioning many types of intelligence in a meaningfully useful way. Testing for it is better now than it used to be but it's still a really reductive/oversimplified concept, good for conversation maybe but not for real comparison.

Right? Like I get he and many of GMs probably hate these kinds of videos but as fans, we never really saw the best chess players in the world show off their abilities unless it was on a random late night talk show

yes, but the truth hurts and people keep saying things like "this is easy", "the games are too famous" , "I can do it too" and all sorts of things that can keep them dreaming.

It's not even like he doesn't know the game, he remembers the game but it's so absurd to get a game from a show

@@aryangupta2466 In the earlier video they showed a game from Harry Potter that he knew, but they showed the pieces.

Correction : a phenomenal alien

it's a very famous game, but the winning sequence was extremely long to remember without seeing the pieces lol

@@jedinxf7 Kasparovs immortal. Very educational and one of the few games with double rook sacrifice!

The crazy thing is that in a similar video to this one, he was shown a position from a Harry Potter movie and he got it. The only reason he missed this one is because he couldnt see the pieces. He's insane

He does have a video reviewing all the moves from the final in the series, hence why the interviewer picked that one. Although the TV series shows the board very few times and by being a made up game, it's normal that Magnus didn't remember it as it is not as remarkable as a Kasparov game for instance

The notes doesn't even have to be played to be heard singing in his head ^-^

No he’s truly the Liszt of chess

Mozart is overrated

Truly the Tchaikovsky of chess.

I am a mere 1200ish player and once participated in a local competition (I didn't win any game lmao) and I can't remember any of the games I played, and it was my first and only competition. :'D

@@abeurakadabeura If you had won a game, you would have remembered it ;)

@@ChristomirRackov Haha maybe one day I will know how that feels like to win a game. :')

Can be both 😂

we are dumb

out of all people that play chess in the entire world, 0.0003% are Gms. Magnus is 0.05% of those gms. Basically astronomically low chances to find another genius like him.

99% of chess players are n00bs like me.

Indeed. People think is mad that people with as much experience as Magnus Carson have extensive knowledge about the game. It's hilarious. What's mad is beating 10 people simultaneously while blindfolded.