When people on here are saying it's a fraud because he's memorising them that's like saying a GM should play 1 e4 and then have a 20 minute think over move 2 or it's against the spirit of chess. They memorise openings and he's memorised this. Fair play.
@Nelson Young he definetly memorised the last say 20-30 puzzles as it's almost impossible to solve them by Intuition and calculation in like 1min or less...
Kudos to him, but you can clearly see the difference between him and super GMs like Hikaru. When Hikaru does this, you can see him thinking about the possible moves, calculating and actually "solving" the puzzle mostly due to his own chess skill and experience. I feel thrilled and learn a lot from that. Casper on the other hand applies previously memorized moves in the right order for each puzzle he sees. He basically uses pattern recognition on the whole chess board. While it is very impressive, it is also very boring and doesnt improve ones chess-skill nearly as much. I applaud his great memorization skill, but what he does is very deranged from competitive chess in general and leaves a sour aftertaste. His score is inflated and no longer anywhere close to being a measure of his actual playing strength. I think that is mainly the reason why people call him a "fraud", even though it indeed was fair play according to the rules. If this is his main form of practice (which I very much doubt), Casper would get absolutely destroyed in a real chess-game against a good chunk of GMs, where the position on the bord differes even a little from what he had already seen.
I know this was a joke, but this is actually a pretty interesting topic. How strong would the "perfect" player be? It could very easily be weaker than A0, or even SF - remember, nettlesomeness is a big part of winning games, and a perfect player does not need nettlesomeness to sustain the perfect minimax evaluation. For instance, if the starting position is indeed a draw (and most believe that it is), then 1. a4 is undoubtedly still a drawn position, seeing as white just has black's apparently drawn position with the addition of a4.
@@J0sho495 It's not. It is pretty obvious that he is not solving this, but trying to remeber the correct answer. Somehow he probably recieves the same puzzles again and again
Exactly, in terms of solving it there is no difference if you remember the puzzle or not. If you do then kudos to you. Hence the high score. Awesome regardless. @@J0sho495
@@J0sho495 it ruins the whole point of puzzel rush, where you supposed to solve it, otherwise it's just a waste of time. His score prooves nothing. twitter.com/chesscom/status/1125101269054443521
@ Are you re-tarded? There are very few puzzles that are 3000 rated or above. Anyone could just go to the puzzle bank and memorize the answers of specific puzzles without figuring out themselves. You can't do that with lower rated puzzles, because there are simply too many variations.
@@geometricart7851 Those are the ones where you can't really memorize them since they are at a low enough level to have a lot of them. I've probably done about 1000 of the 2500 rated puzzles and only seen repeats like 5 times.
I checked all the squares where the queen could go to, indeed the queen is nowhere safe. Except for some squares... I don't see the continuation for Qc3. How does white continue to take the queen?
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@@lollycopter WHat's your point? If you watched the video,he doesn't activate them on test machines because he is constantly changing hardware which makes windows think you're using it on different computers basically. At home, this wouldn't be the case. Just means you're a cheap bastard.
First of all, Fantastic pattern recognition skill dude, kudos. Honestly I don't blame people who suspect he might be cheating. You know when you see Hikaru doing puzzle rush at such high speeds and still being stuck at 55 everytime, it makes your record feel more inhumane. But guess we have to accept the fact that Hikaru is not the only guy who is fast, you proved that he can be out beaten and patient enough to face critics and answer them this way. Keep it going. :)
To the skeptics: There are entire streams of him playing puzzle rush. Do you really think this guy improvised dozens of hours of acting while making a "bot" play? This is definitely proof, and congratulations for achieving such a phenomenal score!
Why not ??He can improvise even for days if that means saving his reputation of not cheating and being nr 1 in puzzles.Do you know cheating is considered the worst thing in the chess community and players who do that basically are risking their chess carriers.
He will be not good , because Hikaru and these guys..etc have been doing puzzle rush since a very long time ,and they have recognized every pattern( memorized all puzzles) so ,Magnus will not be able to do these so fastly but he can get a good score
@@NoShadow not completely, what about finding tactics and trying to come up with a plan in the middle game, alot of chess can be trying to cram lines and stuff in your head but that will only work so far, if your in a position you have never saw before and they are no tactics, or no mate you need to come up with a plan you actually have to like find a good plan. I agree they is alot of memory but saying the whole game is memory is not true and playing the game shows this.
Learning. I don't know how much this guy studied and practiced, but damn, pattern recognition is immediate. When seeing it like this, I know what he is doing, I understand the purpose of most movements, but I am completely unable to find such movements myself - let alone in so little time...
He had a lot of luck in the last try, because there were a lot of famous studies in this puzzle rush (i.e. number 53 is the famous endgame (9.29), number 48 (8.59) and number 60 I recognized (10.17)). I don't quite remember the solution to these puzzles, but he certainly did. Still, the speed is incredible! Goed gedaan!
I'm thinking that he has puzzles from 45 and up memorized because you can tell by the way he's playing up to 45 that he's actually thinking and by 45 and up the puzzles are much harder and require longer calculation that has to be memorized to play that fast. Plus I'm thinking that chess.com is adding puzzles every week mostly to the puzzles under the 45 range. If that's the case, then it should be possible to achieve 96 like he did unless chess.com starts adding a whole bunch of puzzles to the 45 and up range making it much harder or even impossible to achieve.
92... It's just impossible. Casper Schoppen has to give a public demonstration of his abilities if he wants to be seriously recognised as the puzzle rush world champion.
@@TheGreatslyfer if he can do 70 then 92 can't be out of the question. There are players on chess.com that have 6000-12000+ tactics rating. They just memorized all the puzzles. Therer arent't that many at those high levels
This is also precisely what I thought. Perhaps Casper has some sort of incredible, freakish memory talent or something. I guess it's possible. It's like a lot of these things in sport. You get people who couldn't play soccer at the hightest level, but hold the record for the most keepy-ups or other tricks in other sports.
He could also just be focusing on breaking puzzle rush records than playing chess. It's like masturbation vs having sex. You'd ejaculate first from masturbation because your goal is to ejaculate. (It may not apply to everyone though).
I can't even solve these 3.1k puzzles after thinking for an hour,this guy just flexed on us 3k puzzle masters,by solving 3.9k rated puzzles in 2-3 secs!!
5:25 I’m 2900 bullet and this kind of pattern recognition blows me away- did he memorize the high rated puzzles that were in circulation back then? (The instant bishop promotion near the end also made me think that)
@@SamuAguiaHPThat young man is occasionally twisting head on his left, so it is logic and memory side, nonverbal communication says it is memorized. But who knows...he can have photographic memory or exceptional analytical skill. We can´t dismiss him just because he is two steps ahead of us all.
What beautiful vindication. I know better than to expect the haters to own up to their unprincipled skepticism, but I'm hoping they learn a lesson in epistemics. And hopefully Chess.com has the cahones to do a proper apology and reinstate the vacated high score.
If he is really this good (I'm Skeptical by the way) Chess.com should invite him to their headquarters to prove his skill. Unfortunately, in this video, we cannot tell for certain that he is not using a chess bot.
Better to have a camera from behind the player to prove clicks and cursor movements match what is happening on screen. I give the benefit of the doubt, but approximating proof is ALMOST proof. Good work guys. Must be frustrating.
Btw those of u who are saying he has memorised it should know that hikaru has tried puzzle rush for countless hours just while streaming so he should also get score above 60 ...but yeah he's a super GM so we can't say anything can we?
