@@ReverseGuy Thanks for clarifying bud! Yeah, it's super fair to have AIs that can play perfect games and calculate hundreds of moves ahead in like a second thrown in in the same category as a human playing chess. I think just everyone forgot about it! Chess would probably be so boring for a perfect AI, that it would hardly be considered "playing" anymore. They would play a perfect game everytime over and over again. Human and AI playing chess shouldn't even be compared buddy, you would have to be a cyborg to even have a slight chance of even accomplishing a draw against AI.
@@shoganflamemasta3975 Nah you just have to be a crafty human to win, Jon bartholomew has a vid on his channel where he beats stockfish. To draw or win consistently though is a different story
@@mrhellothere4143 They need to show the woman interviewing the man who interviewed carlsen then include clips of carlsen interviewing the woman who interviewed the man who interviewed him.
+partykrew666 You also have to consider chunking. If I wrote "sdf sdh fjk hsfs" you might have trouble remembering that. But if I wrote "FBI CNN USA ROFL" you'll have a higher chance. I'm able to remember over 1000 numbers using this trick and I'm not gifted. He's played chess thousands of times so specific chess positions to him can be as simple as remembering a word.
@@shuutsukiyama1553 He is the world champion since 2013. So yes he was :). "Magnus carlsen is the top chess player in the world" first sentence in the video btw lol.
@@TheRonlat I think the video had been filmed before 2014. Because in some part of it, they say his age and he was younger that how he supposed to be in that year. However, even if he was world champion by the time the video was film, it doesn't mean he wasn't a prodigy. Prodigy: a young person with exceptional qualities or abilities. Just like Carlsen.
@@shuutsukiyama1553 Ah yes indeed it was 21. He was the top chess player by rating but not yet the champion my bad. I read his biography just to be sure. Wow ! Honestly I think he is the best chess player there has ever been. Bobby fisher was also amazing but his career was short.
@@GyariSan1 Maybe, but humans have a way of appreciating historical magnificence, even though its found ways around it. Even tho an army of 10000 men with modern equipment could take out Djenghis Khan´s army at that time, it dosent mean that his accomplishments are without value, or foreign to appreciation.
When we watch Fischer - Karpov - Kasparov era with my chess friends, we were sure (and happy), we are watching on three best chess players of all time, including future. The Magnus Carlsen came and we have to change our oppinion.
What he said about just "knowing" the right move and then taking time to calculate is actually very similar to what my Linear Algebra professor and Physics research mentor have both said to me. They said when you get good enough in your field, you will often find the right answer very quickly because it "feels right". But it's just intuition and it can take a long time proving it. You have to check it. Sometimes it turns out your feeling was wrong, but a lot of times it's right. Interesting parallels.
The good news is that everyone can learn the same thing or be an expert in a field but will take a ton of hours practicing for other people and some even faster. Once you establish the connections in the brain from system 1 to 2 based on the book thinking fast and slow, you will have already the pattern and the intuition. Make sure that the intuition will be validated by system 2 ( more focus and more thinking part of brain) if its correct. The intuitiin feels the same thing as muscle memory. The 2 systems said earlier is the easiest way to describe the thinking process of the brain.
See I have a similar ability. But rather than chess, or math, or science or something useful I use my memory to remember Spongebob and Rick and Morty quotes so that I can whip them out in my daily life.
First time I ever encountered a serious chess player: I was playing a game with him (I'm hopeless at chess, but he wanted to play) and we had to interrupt the game. I said it was a shame we couldn't finish, as we were putting the pieces away. "Don't worry", he said, "I know exactly where all the pieces are, we can pick up another day." He later said he remembered all the moves we'd played as well. I was gobsmacked.
@Anime Sucks yup just realise that my little brother have this ability, I was gobsmacked that when I accused him of cheating in chess, he literally replayed it bit by bit
For top chess players remembering moves is like remembering what someone said or like understanding a topic that your teachers explain. They've been so exposed to it that it just comes naturally.
"do you every stop thinking about chess?" "sometimes, but right now i was actually thinking about chess" ... "and you were thinking about... specific moves, or...?" "ya" the cost of greatness
is it a cost though? That's what makes him happy. That's his enjoyment. If everyone else enjoy traveling the world, he enjoys traveling the variations of chess.
@@henryh8479 and we never will understand and comprehend the beauty of chess as much as he does. I don't understand the idea of "cost". He never lost anything. Life is about focusing on what you love and having fun with it. If you have no interest in playing computer games, is it a loss that you have never appreciated the beauty of computer games? No.
@@shapowlow life is all about cost. by making a choice you sacrifice all the other options. every time. but i agree with you, it is his choice and he doesn't regret it. he doesn't need pity, because he's alright.
@@henryh8479 There is no cost. This video unintentionally tries to portray him as some sort of autistic savant but he's a pretty normal dude minus being insanely intelligent if you watch some other interviews.
It makes me think about the dozens of geniuses and prodigy kids that grow up and makes their life without realizing there was something called chess in their childhood.
+Derek B (DerekTheArtisan) actually, you cannot explain how the mind works. You can explain how the brain works. You can watch neurons fire and hook up sensors and measure which parts of the brain react to certain types of stimuli, but that is not explaining how the mind works. In relation to this video, we can see which parts of the brain react when Magnus plays chess, but we cannot know what he is thinking and/or how he is calculating information - that is the mind working.
Except that he has played probably more than 2000 games each having dozens of moves meaning different dozen positions per game. Remembering one of them is like remembering what happened at the a random 12th minute of the birth of your 2000th child; if you can remember that child in the first place.
“Chess is all about deception” that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard I’ve played a lot of chess, “chess is all about forcing your opponent to not have any good options”
As a norwegian, I'm so proud to have Magnus Carlsen representing. I think that in several hundred years from now, a lot of our winter sports stars, footballers and movie makers will be left in history, but I think that Magnus is the most remarkable living Norwegian. He will be remembered among the likes of Herik Ibsen and Edvard Munch. A brilliant young man...
Well.. I am happy he is around. But... I dono, it feels rather strange to be proud to have him representing anything. Its not like I have any right to any glory he gets. Just like how he eating will not state my hunger, any gains he gets. No matter his skills. It can not be added in any way to my record. I suppose I am a bit split on the being proud of something your nation has done. Even more so something soneone else in your nation has done. But I do see what you are talking about. I am just unsure if it makes sense. XD
Being proud of something like that isn't (or doesn't have to be) the same as taking credit for it. It's a very primitive understanding of pride. Pride is, in fact, a deeper feeling. Just because I'm proud of my father (for instance) doesn't mean I'm saying it was me who shaped him that way. Pride is a sense of attachment and resulting obligation. Not necessarily the "I caught most pokemons of all!" type of pride. Quite similarly, "good taste" also has deeper meaning apart from that something is delicious... Our culture is increasingly more infantile, and it's getting more and more difficult to explain these things.
When I play chess I have to keep reminding myself the horsy goes L, The tower is straight, The sharky is X, and that one of the pieces in the middle is OP and the other is poo.
I used to smoke everyday or every other day. I haven't smoked for about a year and my memory is already 10 times better than what it was while I smoked. Weed aint so good as it's made out to be. Your better off without it. 🙄
His ability doesn't come from "another world"; his skill at chess is a combination of incredible memory, spatial reasoning and pattern recognition at the highest level, and, lastly, hard work and determination. Many great chess players have this combination, i.e. Bobby Fischer.
the subconscious network "learns" sets of inputs and knows the output already. He has probably made the same moves before or been in a similar game state before and knows how it plays out.
Rodentsnipe This subconscious stuff reminds me that classical research of conditioned responses with animals (ex: dogs starting to salivate in response to a bell).
This is the thing with high IQ individuals, hard to impress, it's like they are living in a whole other dimension, very dedicated to their craft and really fun to be around even so! Props to Magnus, great human being!
To be honest London is not that interesting.. gloomy weather and old architecture.. i'm sure he seen more beautiful views in Norway and they have great infrastructure too
@@DanWilan Old architecture is miles better than the new garbage we have today. Just look at Dubai. Massively overrated! London is one of the greatest cities. Full of history and detail.
"Chess is all about deception." Clearly the corresponded does not know the game very well. "On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of lies; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrites." Emanuel Lasker
00bikeboy I couldn't agree more. I'm only an amateur player and even I know that Chess is logical. It's not something like poker where it relies on emotion and bluffs. I couldn't help but laugh when I heard him say "Chess is all about deception".
ShdwSrpnt As long as you play with people emotions are always going to be involved. Poker is about making the best call using the cards you can see to understand who has what, and to make people believe you have something else most of the time. Which can be irrelevant if luck plays out. Chess is about who can see more in deph and who can judge the valor of pieces and positions. Chess is deceptive in the sense that who can see more and better wins. Poker is goofy imo because luck can play its part and everyone goes nuts. You act like a robot and all you gotta do is wieght probabilities vs investment's pros and cons. A game of poker can take forever without skill. A game of chess has no turning back. It's do or die, It's an eye for an eye.
Chris55433 The point is that the poisoned pawn and the gambit aren't hidden. Everything is there on the board, for both players to see, as long as they can see far enough. There's the famous case of Marshall waiting years to spring a "trap" on Capablanca in 1918, but the wily Cuban refuted it over the board. So I would say that although they may be attempts to deceive, in chess where nothing is hidden, the better player sees further and demonstrates that deception is really just an illusion (or self-delusion), as Lasker points out.
+Potato .Farmer good luck remembering 1000 games of chess at once. Unless you missed the part where he actually didnt look at the chess boards while playing...
Can remember over 10 thousand games. Tries to fool him with the most memorable game of his life. smh Evan I knew it was Carlsen Kasparov before he said.
+BlueEyesWhiteBoy chess is about decieving the other player in what he will think you are going to do, so the deception is in future moves. Nothing is hidden but you can distract the attention of your opponent.
@@princepsangelusmors well the term "all" is assuming that every single game is based on gambits when really its about just making the move that works best
@@princepsangelusmors yep they are a thing but most of the time both players have studied the gambit lines and are aware of what playing into the gambit or declining the gambit results into, so gambit is technically not a deception at all
+Ramiro El Gáname well - here is a thought. The brain actually does work in a sort of gradual process of data crunching and evaluation against known or innate reference points. Unconscious thinking, which precedes and always underlie conscious thinking takes vastly more data into consideration than consciousness does. Conscious (convergent) thinking is biased and localized and processes as I recall around 60 bits per second, which is about the amount of information in a sentence or line in a book. The body, prior to that, processes more than 11 million bits per second. This process is unconscious (divergent) and delivers cues and results to consciousness that feels like intuitions, but which are really the result of experience and complex processing. If one has an amazing memory and the experience of 10.000 full chess games - great intuitions are very likely to arrive as a result of unconscious processing. Unconscious processing - being more openended and wandering - may sometimes benefit from a round critical conscious evaluation, to sharpen some aspect or other, but really the amazing part of the job has already been done. The rule is in fact: If you have a lot of experience within a field (a well trained unconscious) and if your mind has been presented with all relevant data in a thorough and focused way - the intuitions that follow are likely to be the best course of action, especially so when dealing with complex issues that require the delicate balancing of a wide array of factors. This guy has very special abilities of course but the fundamental principles are not magical. He draws from a vast nonverbal, sensual well of preexisting knowlegde and his conscious and unconscious mind is highly trained in all relevant thought processes. It stands to reason that "just knowing" would be the result. We all experience "just knowing". If you are good with words and you need a rhyme your unconscious probably just delivers one. You did not consciously consult a long list of all related words that you know and then deliberately pick one. One came to mind. Maybe several. "I thought of a rhyme" you'll say as if it was a systematic and calculated process. But really you asked and it was delivered to you. And then you took credit after the fact. You can then check against your actual memory and make a list to see if it was the best rhyme for the occasion. But your mind was already full of the occasion and primed for the task. So most likely the brain gave you the rhyme in question, either because it was obvious (cliche) or for more complex, and partly or wholly unconscious - but occasion-relevant reasons.
Noone can. It just clicks into your mind, and you know the correct move, but you can't tell yourself why it is so good, or what the correct move is. As each move he makes, his mind subconsciously remembers evert move he has seen, and which ones work and why, and then each move comes into a single set of moves. Like each move he makes is completely unique. So he never makes quite the same decision because each game is slightly unique, it is slightly new because the game before effects his decision making.
Well unless he volunteers to get his mind picked by scientists (i think he has on some minor things) I doubt anyone will. Lets just say that he has a great mnemonic tool to remember all those games and he is a brilliant strategist to say the least. Never been interested in chess, but that may be because even at easy the computer beats me every time. When it comes to chess I am at the bottom of the bucket. My mind works better on other areas. ;)
I thought the video described it pretty well. He has exceptional memory and analysis skills that he uses in chess. He also never quite leaves the board, always planning, evaluating and thinking.
"chess is all about deception" -interviewer mm, I dunno about that. at a low level, you can deceive people with tricks, but as you get to higher level, people don't really miss on threats you make. at that point, it's more about making threats that your opponent simply can't answer without creating weaknesses in their position (or just can't answer at all)
@@ucanthandledatruth01 That is traditional thinking but as man's understanding of chess evolves, particularly with powerful engines often coming up with superior moves no human would consider, the belief that moving first is an advantage is falling by the wayside, not completely, but most masters don't see it as a significant edge anymore.
1:24 - If you keep playing enough you get an instinct, lets say you do enough patterns you then get situation were you know what the patterns is. It's a bit like muscle memory. In that you learn what those patterns look like and then you just do what you're suppose to do in that situation, now the only reason to calculate this is to make sure it pans out like the other times you did something. Basically if you do something like tic tac toe, and you do it enough times you just know what you should do, if you do that with chess there is way more variables so it's not as simple, but the more you do it the more you get an instinct and the more it just makes sense to do that move. However there is limit to this, if you play people that realise this then they will try limit how you learn and only do things in such a way that it is hard to over come this situation, I don't know how to explain this. So basically if you play AI it will not try limit it's move to make it hard for you to learn. If you play yourself over and over you will not limit your moves to stop yourself learning. But once you repeat and repeat and practice and practice you will get an instinct in most situations as to what makes sense. Also if you look at history as in look at all the championship games you can learn how champions think, so the more you study, the more you play an opponent not intentionally losing, or intentionally doing limited moves, you will learn a lot fast, as in play strong AI, and as long as you practice over and over you will gain an instinct as to what to do next. Obviously Magnus Carlsen can do this at a high level, most likely from practising a lot or studying a lot, or maybe he just naturally sees patterns, and so he can get this instinct a lot faster then most people. Also Magnus Carlsen has a great memory, I'm not sure if that is because he just focuses so much on Chess. I can remember old memories I like and around the date it happened. Maybe he studies over his old games like he would championship games, and so he would remember when it is. But still that is very hard for most to do, and obviously I think no one can really learn to have a better memory.
@Kilo Mintoni Well there is some things you can do to improve memory, but it's limited, so no one can learn to have a better memory to the extent Magnus has.
To trust culture is to sacrifice your individuality, accepting that you are nothing but an animal, willingly and unknowingly allowing the political elite to be your masters, you are slaves.
Magnus told us that he can remember 10,000 games that he has played in the past. Me: Forgot to turn on charging switch and come back 2 hours later to see.
It's common for geniuses to not remember having even made any mental calculations for arriving at the answer. He even related it to immediate "feeling."
It's like asking a boxer if he thinks about how what to do every move or where to land their punches. Most of it is instinct and habit, built upon 10,000 hours of experience. They can get it wrong sometimes, but in longer time controls in chess you have the time to check your moves or come up with better one. On the other hand, in boxing you have many moves to make so each individual mistake is generally not too costly to the match.
@@Danuxsy yeah that is amazing in itself but think about the fact that he is able to remember one random game of the thousands of games he has played over many years easily just by seeing the position
his mind is probably 10x times better wired than the normal human being minds and his chemical brain transmissions are way faster than normal, that's how he can recall information really fast, and replay a full game in half a minute GOD GIFTED once I tried to replay a game on board, it took me half an hour to remember!
Look, this guy is amazing, no doubt. But if you are going to be in awe of someone and say no one else can do what he does, you cannot then be astounded that he played 10 games blindfolded. Great grandmasters of the past have done that with 25+ blindfolded simultaneous games. Many of the times it was against strong competitive players. The record for blindfold simultaneous games stands at 46.
Look up Fabiano Caruana, Nigel Short, Gata Kamsky, Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer (the list could go on) All were capable of doing this as early as age 16 and even earlier for some.
Paul Andre And here come you and dont even fucking read my post. I was commenting about the way the COMMENTATORS were astounded that he could play 10 simultaneous blindfolded games. That this in itself was an almost unique feat. My criticism was levied at the people who made the video not at your golden boy. I even acknowledged that he was amazing right at the beginning so even the most rabid fan would not misunderstand what I was trying to say. And then came you. Peace.
I can't wait to see a new world chess champion. Not because I don't like Magnus, I actually think he's pretty cool, but his talent and intelligence are already insane, seeing someone even better is unfathomable to me. And exciting.
Magnus his IQ isn't 190, he was never tested. I don't think people know how inaccurate the IQ scores given to chess players really are. Garry kasparov was supposed to have an IQ of 190 too but when he was actually tested he only scored an IQ score of 135 which is slightly above gifted. Only Bobby fischer was probably close to a genius IQ score since he was tested and scored an IQ of 180 at the age of 15, however today he would most likely score around 145 to 160 because of the difference and accuracy of tests today, which is still in the genius range. But even still, you can make an argument that high IQ results for children can be incredibly inflated thus Bobby Fischer's score of 180 might be inaccurate too but we will never know.
@@thesavantart8480 I agree that I.Q. tests fail to test all dimensions of intelligence and therefore are woefully inaccurate. That said, Magnus Carlsen played ten games of chess simultaneously with his back to all the boards, via move notation. He remembered what was on each board based on spatial reasoning and memory, and won all the games. He said he would like to try with 20. I would be inclined to believe that he is a candidate for an actual 190 I.Q.
@@philippides I would not be so fast to suggest that about Magnus. One reason being that his ability to play 10 chess boards without looking does not necessarily suggest good memory or high intelligence. There are memory athletes who could potentially play 100 chess games or more without looking but their IQ's are nowhere near 190. The thing with great memory or intelligence is that it is supposed to be pretty general on all fields. Magnus may be able to play 10 chess games blindfolded but can he calculate 937×746 in less than a minute in his head? How quickly does he understand new information and how fast can he recall it? How many new problems can he hold in his head and manipulate? These are questions that, once answered, could give us an idea about how good his memory is and how intelligent he is because these questions are focused on his working memory and working memory is highly correlated with fluid intelligence. Exceptional fluid intelligent people can be scary smart but they are very, very rare. As an adult they can already look 10-20 moves ahead in chess after only learning the way pieces move and the basics of chess but they can still get beaten by someone who has more knowledge of chess, like opening theories etc. The keyword here is "knowledge" because that is 9 out of 10 times the only difference between someone who has high fluid intelligence and someone who does not. I enjoyed typing these comments, I hope some people learned something new today.
Ah yes, the good days when Magnus was just a “chess prodigy”
What is he know?
@@SPARTANGER534 world champion
@@ReverseGuy that fact you had to clarify as if we didn't already mean that is just hilarious 😂
@@ReverseGuy Thanks for clarifying bud! Yeah, it's super fair to have AIs that can play perfect games and calculate hundreds of moves ahead in like a second thrown in in the same category as a human playing chess. I think just everyone forgot about it! Chess would probably be so boring for a perfect AI, that it would hardly be considered "playing" anymore. They would play a perfect game everytime over and over again. Human and AI playing chess shouldn't even be compared buddy, you would have to be a cyborg to even have a slight chance of even accomplishing a draw against AI.
@@shoganflamemasta3975 Nah you just have to be a crafty human to win, Jon bartholomew has a vid on his channel where he beats stockfish. To draw or win consistently though is a different story
I walk into a room and forget why I went in.
Same here😂😂✌
this is the best comment i ever read in my entire life. i literally fell from the chair laughing.
Happens all the time to me... Mostly cuz I'm too lazy to direct my focus and let it go wild...
Slapped by my mother frequently after.
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LOL
An interviewer interviewing an interviewer about an interview
Interviewception
@@pauldavis5665 we need to go deeper
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@@mrhellothere4143 They need to show the woman interviewing the man who interviewed carlsen then include clips of carlsen interviewing the woman who interviewed the man who interviewed him.
Hahaha!
"I had to replay the whole game in my head for half a minute, yea you know"
Hehe I don't know
this gave me the queens gambit vibe
Yeah, you do just a simple A4, a5, NE3, NF5
@@julianemary8240 That's funny, I was just watching it and thought "this gives me Magnus Carlsen vibes" 😂
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"A chess prodigy explains how his mind works"
- "I know what to do"
Thanks
Haha.. enough said tho..
Lmfao 😂
Very insightful
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10 chess games at once without looking at them. what the fuck man. seriously.
+partykrew666
Remembers the position of pieces from a game when he was 13 years old.
Goddamn episodic memory this man has.
+Karl Glenn Eidetic memory is what it's called.
I mean episodic like he remembers his past experiences so well. Damn I don't even remember what I did yesterday.
+partykrew666 You also have to consider chunking. If I wrote "sdf sdh fjk hsfs" you might have trouble remembering that. But if I wrote "FBI CNN USA ROFL" you'll have a higher chance. I'm able to remember over 1000 numbers using this trick and I'm not gifted. He's played chess thousands of times so specific chess positions to him can be as simple as remembering a word.
Aaron Tupaz ahh, yeah, i can see how that helps. still pretty amazing though.
That’s no prodigy, that’s a Magnus Carlsen.
By that time he wasn't world champion yet.
@@shuutsukiyama1553 He is the world champion since 2013. So yes he was :). "Magnus carlsen is the top chess player in the world" first sentence in the video btw lol.
@@TheRonlat I think the video had been filmed before 2014. Because in some part of it, they say his age and he was younger that how he supposed to be in that year.
However, even if he was world champion by the time the video was film, it doesn't mean he wasn't a prodigy.
Prodigy: a young person with exceptional qualities or abilities. Just like Carlsen.
@@TheRonlat 0:10 "He is 21 years old". And he is 29 now. So, the video has been filmed on 2011.
@@shuutsukiyama1553 Ah yes indeed it was 21. He was the top chess player by rating but not yet the champion my bad.
I read his biography just to be sure. Wow ! Honestly I think he is the best chess player there has ever been. Bobby fisher was also amazing but his career was short.
When Magnus eventually passes away, people playing chess 500-1000 years from now will still look up to him. Thats how crazy he is
You think people will be around in 500 years?
No. AIs like Alpha Go/Zero will be implemented into human brain by then.
@@GyariSan1 Maybe, but humans have a way of appreciating historical magnificence, even though its found ways around it. Even tho an army of 10000 men with modern equipment could take out Djenghis Khan´s army at that time, it dosent mean that his accomplishments are without value, or foreign to appreciation.
When we watch Fischer - Karpov - Kasparov era with my chess friends, we were sure (and happy), we are watching on three best chess players of all time, including future. The Magnus Carlsen came and we have to change our oppinion.
I dont think so.
There will be better player and better computers to analyse from.
Theories will be refined.
Which one of your mates is the best at chess?
The Czech mate.
This made me laugh harder than I probably should have, lol.
damn!!
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I'm czech and I've never thought bout this XD
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I can cook 2 minute rice in 1 minute and 50 seconds
Hahahaha...
please teach me your ways master
Woah, thats some sick skills.
lmaoo
We are not all born equals
What he said about just "knowing" the right move and then taking time to calculate is actually very similar to what my Linear Algebra professor and Physics research mentor have both said to me. They said when you get good enough in your field, you will often find the right answer very quickly because it "feels right". But it's just intuition and it can take a long time proving it. You have to check it. Sometimes it turns out your feeling was wrong, but a lot of times it's right. Interesting parallels.
Thanks for sharing it
Absolutely
You're right! That is a very high level that exists every skill and in acquiring it which is really interesting and holds a lot of power!
I'm not sure what's interesting about it, I think it's quite obvious that you learn patterns and recognize patterns intuitively?
The good news is that everyone can learn the same thing or be an expert in a field but will take a ton of hours practicing for other people and some even faster. Once you establish the connections in the brain from system 1 to 2 based on the book thinking fast and slow, you will have already the pattern and the intuition. Make sure that the intuition will be validated by system 2 ( more focus and more thinking part of brain) if its correct. The intuitiin feels the same thing as muscle memory. The 2 systems said earlier is the easiest way to describe the thinking process of the brain.
He can remember 10.000 chess games in his mind
*Proceeds to show him his own game he played*
He has easily played more than 10k games, so he would mainly remember his own
He would have recognized any famous chess game probably
very possible to achieve i am not amazed something anyone that has the drive can do
@@wetraccoon99 yes, probably more. Is also what I said
I don't even remember my password
Me at the beginning: I wonder if I tried hard enough I could get on his level
Me at the end: McDonalds doesn't seem too bad a profession
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🤣🤣I know he really is brilliant.
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See I have a similar ability. But rather than chess, or math, or science or something useful I use my memory to remember Spongebob and Rick and Morty quotes so that I can whip them out in my daily life.
+theeab1993 Let's be honest, your skills are more useful
and that's the waaaaay the news goes
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***** I believe it's "Wuba Lubba Dub Duuub!!"
but I feel you
+theeab1993 hit me with 1 of their most famous quotes, and one of your least favorite quotes. boom! go!
Beth: Looking at the Ceiling
Magnus: looking at the wall
I can’t with these comments 😂
😂😂😂
He has a mind palace like Sherlock
funny enough magnus has beaten the Beth bot
Hikaru: looking at his hands
First time I ever encountered a serious chess player: I was playing a game with him (I'm hopeless at chess, but he wanted to play) and we had to interrupt the game. I said it was a shame we couldn't finish, as we were putting the pieces away. "Don't worry", he said, "I know exactly where all the pieces are, we can pick up another day." He later said he remembered all the moves we'd played as well. I was gobsmacked.
That's a lot easier with cameras nowadays
Bruh how did he do that
@@spyinsecret0075 memory
@Anime Sucks yup just realise that my little brother have this ability, I was gobsmacked that when I accused him of cheating in chess, he literally replayed it bit by bit
For top chess players remembering moves is like remembering what someone said or like understanding a topic that your teachers explain. They've been so exposed to it that it just comes naturally.
"do you every stop thinking about chess?"
"sometimes, but right now i was actually thinking about chess"
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"and you were thinking about... specific moves, or...?"
"ya"
the cost of greatness
is it a cost though? That's what makes him happy. That's his enjoyment. If everyone else enjoy traveling the world, he enjoys traveling the variations of chess.
It is an opportunity cost. He never learned to appreciate the rest of the world.
@@henryh8479 and we never will understand and comprehend the beauty of chess as much as he does.
I don't understand the idea of "cost". He never lost anything. Life is about focusing on what you love and having fun with it. If you have no interest in playing computer games, is it a loss that you have never appreciated the beauty of computer games? No.
@@shapowlow life is all about cost. by making a choice you sacrifice all the other options. every time. but i agree with you, it is his choice and he doesn't regret it. he doesn't need pity, because he's alright.
@@henryh8479 There is no cost. This video unintentionally tries to portray him as some sort of autistic savant but he's a pretty normal dude minus being insanely intelligent if you watch some other interviews.
Okay but everyone’s gangster until Harmon starts seeing the game on the ceiling.
Best comment so far
She is not the first, its based on original play thatvhe look up the ceiling
And then Carlson destroys her chess bot
That's the dumbest thing ever
I also read this comment and couldn't upset me 😂
Magnus is a monster. Imagine playing against 10 different player at the same time without even looking the chess board
I can't even imagine 1 tbh
Other GMs can do it too
@@erlindaalba1682not with 10 players.
@@Javohir691 the record is against 50 players
And win
It makes me think about the dozens of geniuses and prodigy kids that grow up and makes their life without realizing there was something called chess in their childhood.
Not all geniuses have the same kind of genial powers to be great at chess
@@VARMOT123yea but the point is there could have been lots of prodigies but missed out because they didnt know about chess
Los prodigios no nacen siendo buenos en una habilidad específica, simplemente se vuelven extremadamente buenos en cualquier cosa que tocan.
intelligence doesn't equate to chess skill though, it's not about intelligence, it's about pattern recognition and memorization
@@anomaly3215 ...whichhhh are the main components of intelligence.
so when do we get to him explaining how his mind works?
***** I can, but that's beside the point - the video title says that he will. I want my money back.
+SxKushxS You need to get laid my brotha..
+SxKushxS I see how it is. Well have fun commenting.
+Derek B (DerekTheArtisan) Watch again.
+Derek B (DerekTheArtisan)
actually, you cannot explain how the mind works. You can explain how the brain works. You can watch neurons fire and hook up sensors and measure which parts of the brain react to certain types of stimuli, but that is not explaining how the mind works.
In relation to this video, we can see which parts of the brain react when Magnus plays chess, but we cannot know what he is thinking and/or how he is calculating information - that is the mind working.
I can play ten chess matches at once without looking, too.
Huh, do I have to win at least one? That wasn't specified.
+Ruben Nice one bro, well played!
you have to not make any illegal moves, which in itsself requires alot.
I have a completely unbroken record in Chess! I have come 2nd in every game I have ever played!
what if its a draw?
Ruben magic the gathering
him playing a 10 game exhibition with his back to the boards is the most impressive thing I've ever seen anyone do in chess, by a mile.
One of the most impressive things I've ever seen anyone do at all!
@@seejayjames agreed!!!
Its so overwhelming did he win?
@@Nickeltony I am sure he won. It's just a matter or making sure he knows where the pieces are.
@@Nickeltony yes he won all 10. Furthermore those weren’t just 10 random chess players. They were decent opponents for him.
Magnus: Remembers 10,000 chess games
Me: Struggling to recall where I kept my car key a while ago
Right lmfaoooo
Pretty sure Magnus does that too.
A chess prodigy explains how his mind works:
- I know what to do.
A round of applause for this insight, dear uploader.
This comment should get way more likes
🤣🤣
+Yevhen Los
I can't relate.
I don't know why this comment is so funny
Damn how did he remember Carlsen vs Kasparov?
Thats like remembering the birth of your only child.
He even laughed when he saw the position
luis miguel saenz taborda
lol, exactly.
Except that he has played probably more than 2000 games each having dozens of moves meaning different dozen positions per game. Remembering one of them is like remembering what happened at the a random 12th minute of the birth of your 2000th child; if you can remember that child in the first place.
Vngani
Kasparov was his first major opponent, and probably the game of his life, so...
Kasparov was a world champion. Of course, he remembered that game.
Carlsen - " I know what to do, immediately.
Rest of the world : genius.
You should have written: Rest of the world: genius, because he was right.
I"m not sure you get the point of this dialogue comment trend.
@@microphoner1 They do.
Well he does have a presumed iq of 190
@@yyumanager4709 Not even close, 137 at most.
What a nice guy, I hope he wins everything there is to win in chess someday.
took him until just a week or so ago to accomplish that :)
I once played 10 people at chess at the same time. I lost every game. I guess this prodigy and I are not so different after all.
Random Idiot haha me only I was vsing three people at a time and I didn’t lose any match because I tripped over and the tables collapsed
Silverfang 45 Hahahaha 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
LOL
Shitposting on youtube just got a little better, thank you.
Perfect username to go with the comment
"He didn't look out the window, he wasn't interested"
*_Immediately looks out the windows_*
masiro shiina!!
mashiro
Holy shit. That's exactly who I had in mind!
I think the guy just had a man crush on Magnus, or stroked his "intellectual" boner
“Chess is all about deception” that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard I’ve played a lot of chess, “chess is all about forcing your opponent to not have any good options”
Poker is about deception, chess not so much.
@My Name The interviewer said that not Carlsen.
Which is deception
I too play chess, and nope, chess IS about deception. If you aren't convinced, search up Mikhail Tal. You are in for a big surprise, my friend.
@Gauldron Sage
yes exactly,the only deception going on would be if you swindle your opponent or something,which rarely ever happens at the top level
Jason Christ. It's Magnus Bourne.
The Bourne's Gambit
Madness Carlsen
This comment thread is funny
fk me... i cant even remember what i ate for breakfast.
+KobeBryant pepperage farm remembers
+KobeBryant :-)
+KobeBryant I think you cannot remember last time you dunked.
+KobeBryant Like muscles you need to train your memory :)
+KobeBryant lol Kobe......
As a norwegian, I'm so proud to have Magnus Carlsen representing. I think that in several hundred years from now, a lot of our winter sports stars, footballers and movie makers will be left in history, but I think that Magnus is the most remarkable living Norwegian. He will be remembered among the likes of Herik Ibsen and Edvard Munch. A brilliant young man...
Loddentidster maybe because hes the only norwegian worth remembering
+Zach Johnson or maybe... not.
Well your knut haukelid basically won a war so that's worth remembering
Well.. I am happy he is around. But... I dono, it feels rather strange to be proud to have him representing anything. Its not like I have any right to any glory he gets. Just like how he eating will not state my hunger, any gains he gets. No matter his skills. It can not be added in any way to my record.
I suppose I am a bit split on the being proud of something your nation has done. Even more so something soneone else in your nation has done. But I do see what you are talking about. I am just unsure if it makes sense. XD
Being proud of something like that isn't (or doesn't have to be) the same as taking credit for it.
It's a very primitive understanding of pride. Pride is, in fact, a deeper feeling. Just because I'm proud of my father (for instance) doesn't mean I'm saying it was me who shaped him that way.
Pride is a sense of attachment and resulting obligation. Not necessarily the "I caught most pokemons of all!" type of pride.
Quite similarly, "good taste" also has deeper meaning apart from that something is delicious...
Our culture is increasingly more infantile, and it's getting more and more difficult to explain these things.
"i know what to do"
Yep that's some great explanation. I'm now a chess prodigy
prodigy implies you are born with it.
He doesn't know exactly how he is able to do those things. Strange-isn't i?. As if it isn't really him doing it. Gives me the creeps.
That came with lot of practice .... he memorised over 10,000 games and analysed them to develop that skill
Do you think before you catch a ball?
@@radrook4481 Do you know WHY you like chocolate ice cream and not strawberry or whatever? Not if you really think about it.
-"So, how do you do that?"
-"I'm not sure it's in my head"
~THE END~
When I play chess I have to keep reminding myself the horsy goes L, The tower is straight, The sharky is X, and that one of the pieces in the middle is OP and the other is poo.
Which one is sharky?
*****
The one medial to the horsy. When viewing from a leveled angle, the piece looks like a shark with a round nose.
haha this cracked me up big time
I'm sorry but man I cant stop laughing. Because that's exactly me when I play chess.
Malicious Affection check out Levar Kizer on UA-cam feels like somebody's watching me
And here i am watching this high for the last 3 weeks can't remember what happened 30 sec ago
i feel you
lmao Wineax
broooo
I cant remember what happened in the future...but i will...so does that mean i already have the memory but in the future
I used to smoke everyday or every other day. I haven't smoked for about a year and my memory is already 10 times better than what it was while I smoked. Weed aint so good as it's made out to be. Your better off without it. 🙄
His ability doesn't come from "another world"; his skill at chess is a combination of incredible memory, spatial reasoning and pattern recognition at the highest level, and, lastly, hard work and determination. Many great chess players have this combination, i.e. Bobby Fischer.
This is the most accurate answer I have ever come across so far and I fully agree
But his memory, spatial reasoning and pattern recognition, hard work and determination are from another world.
No these all things can be developed bro , there are so many examples of such masters in chess right now.
He doesnt consider Bobby Fischer great.
And mozarts skill didnt come from an other world either
Chess is not about deception CBS is apparently since i am still waiting for him to say how his mind works..
lol was thinking the exact same thing
How does your mind work?
What is is about? Is it about how to read yourself and your opponent?
Chess is all about deception when you’re 7 and just learned the scholar’s mate that week
I saw another interview where he admitted that he really doesn't know exactly how he does these things.
great explanation: "I just know what to do"
the subconscious network "learns" sets of inputs and knows the output already. He has probably made the same moves before or been in a similar game state before and knows how it plays out.
Rodentsnipe This subconscious stuff reminds me that classical research of conditioned responses with animals (ex: dogs starting to salivate in response to a bell).
That is a great explanation actually. Maybe your understanding is wanting.
grytlappar > "That is a great explanation actually."
Mind to explain the reasoning or your understanding is limited?
Nah. It's easier to just insult someone than to explain why you disagree.
but does he even lift?
he lifts every piece he moves.
His money lifts for him.
hahahahahahaha
Should be: "does he even skwaaaat?"
ole gunar You are something different, you know that?
If chess was a test, Magnus would be quadruple checking while everyone else is struggling to finish on time. Absolute mad lad
He’d probably be finding errors in how the questions were asked to make them harder.
It can't be achieved with hardwork. Purely gifted
I can do a 360 no scope across the map on call of duty while falling from an airplane and one hand in my pants.
Omg 😂
Jajajajajajajajajaaja
+Dennis Vargas Can you do it while eating Miso Soup?
Aman Basanti yes, with chopsticks
+Dennis Vargas you're my hero
Oh yeah, I have a 2.0 KD in COD. Where's my 60 minutes?
So you must be one of those whiny little bitches
***** damn they should do a 120 minutes for you
I have a .6 KD in BO3. Where's my 60 minutes.
Brent Schulte you get 5 minutes, half of which will be commercial breaks
+Patriott
His chess kd (wl) is 300.0
This is the thing with high IQ individuals, hard to impress, it's like they are living in a whole other dimension, very dedicated to their craft and really fun to be around even so! Props to Magnus, great human being!
To be honest London is not that interesting.. gloomy weather and old architecture.. i'm sure he seen more beautiful views in Norway and they have great infrastructure too
It's not about high IQ, it's about the fact that he is so enveloped in chess that he is literally thinking about moves while being interviewed.
@@DanWilan Old architecture is miles better than the new garbage we have today. Just look at Dubai. Massively overrated! London is one of the greatest cities. Full of history and detail.
LOL I was like "I bet this kid cant beat magnus carlsen"..he looks so different without the beard 😂
Even he can't counter yorick in the top lane.
EleGiggle
Fabulous Taric can though! :D
loooooooooool
Rework yorik is a 1v1 machine
I did it once with Lee Sin(Reworked Yorick) and I play Dota2.
Gitgud scrubs XD
he can remember 10 000 chess games, i can remember 10 001 porn vids
spartanboosts lol i have the whole internet
+CanadianBoardCrew He has chess and you have porn, we all play with the toys the gods give us
Check. Mate.
Now that's a different kind of chest game :)
I can't do 10000 but i'm around 2TB legit 😭👌💯
Genius +obssession =world champion
When I see a hot girl:
*I know what to do*
**Proceed to act like a total idiot because my brain says why tf not*
hahahaha
But then you ponder it for thirty minutes because you have to verify your opinion?
"Chess is all about deception." Clearly the corresponded does not know the game very well.
"On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of lies; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrites." Emanuel Lasker
Very true, beautiful quote from Lasker
00bikeboy I couldn't agree more. I'm only an amateur player and even I know that Chess is logical. It's not something like poker where it relies on emotion and bluffs. I couldn't help but laugh when I heard him say "Chess is all about deception".
ShdwSrpnt As long as you play with people emotions are always going to be involved. Poker is about making the best call using the cards you can see to understand who has what, and to make people believe you have something else most of the time. Which can be irrelevant if luck plays out. Chess is about who can see more in deph and who can judge the valor of pieces and positions. Chess is deceptive in the sense that who can see more and better wins. Poker is goofy imo because luck can play its part and everyone goes nuts. You act like a robot and all you gotta do is wieght probabilities vs investment's pros and cons. A game of poker can take forever without skill. A game of chess has no turning back. It's do or die, It's an eye for an eye.
00bikeboy So then in your opinion, traps are not the same as deception? i.e. gambits or poisoned pawns? I totally disagree with you.
Chris55433 The point is that the poisoned pawn and the gambit aren't hidden. Everything is there on the board, for both players to see, as long as they can see far enough. There's the famous case of Marshall waiting years to spring a "trap" on Capablanca in 1918, but the wily Cuban refuted it over the board. So I would say that although they may be attempts to deceive, in chess where nothing is hidden, the better player sees further and demonstrates that deception is really just an illusion (or self-delusion), as Lasker points out.
Duuuude that 1 v 10 was fuckin' ridiculous.
young people , the youngest there looked about 8-10 which can still be very good at chess... don't undermine them
+Potato .Farmer good luck remembering 1000 games of chess at once. Unless you missed the part where he actually didnt look at the chess boards while playing...
Me playing Dota everyday. 1v10
Feels bro
EZ game EZ life bro #dotalove
"I was trying to surprise him"
*Picks his first game against the greatest chess player of all time besides Magnus himself*
Bruh
Yeah, and i guess that's why Magnus laught when he saw the position x)
This kid is promising. He will be a chess grandmaster someday.
He had already been a GM for 10 years at the time of this interview
@LushSSB That was the joke.
Who knows? Maybe even World Champion too! The sky's the limit!
That watch at 1:39 is so out of place lol
+Zino Productions Cannot be unseen.....its in my dreams......why!!!!!!
+Zino Productions Absolutely ahhaha.
+Zino Productions That g-shock life
IKR?! I'm surprised it doesn't have a calculator on it LOL... ¯\(°_o)/¯
+Zino Productions I dont understand, anyone care to explain. I always like to expand my knowledge.
Can remember over 10 thousand games. Tries to fool him with the most memorable game of his life. smh Evan I knew it was Carlsen Kasparov before he said.
pretty sure that why he laughed lol
Yeah, like "You're trying to catch me out, but insult me with this"
Gianni :) even*
Gianni :) lol that's funny af
Thought he was talking to Evan.
I’m out here struggling with connect 4
haha
Mood
I can't do connect 4 it's too hard. I do connect 3
There's a skill to interviewing people too , and this guy has it
If he's so great, I'd like to see him interview 10 people at once with his back turned to them
@@noobpowner6983 lol why would you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree
But can he develop a strategy to defeat 1995-96 Bulls?
umer adrees well meme'd my friend
umer adrees the problem is we had the other genius in bulls. and he has more friends than carlsen.
Can you?
He could beat them at chess
Impossible!
Chess is not all about deception. In fact, it's the opposite. There is no hidden information in chess.
ensayofr
Disagree but okay.
ensayofr
Still, it's the concept. What is chess about? Hidden information? No... Just no.
+BlueEyesWhiteBoy chess is about decieving the other player in what he will think you are going to do, so the deception is in future moves. Nothing is hidden but you can distract the attention of your opponent.
+ensayofr Simply failing to see something does not make it hidden
+BlueEyesWhiteBoy Exactly...it is not about deception, all is set clear...it is about strategy and tactics.
"Chess is all about deception" man has clearly played a lot -_-
@Jay L Tf is wrong with u lol
@Jay L lay off that meth, goofball
Oh yeah, because gambits aren't a thing.
@@princepsangelusmors well the term "all" is assuming that every single game is based on gambits when really its about just making the move that works best
@@princepsangelusmors yep they are a thing but most of the time both players have studied the gambit lines and are aware of what playing into the gambit or declining the gambit results into, so gambit is technically not a deception at all
Can you imagine dedicating your life to chess, working hard and all, and then Magnus beats you and says "i know what to do".
tbf so Has Magnus
Where is the part of explaining?
+Maciej Jankowski ahahhahahahahahah +1 +1 +1 +1
+Maciej Jankowski Networks never explain anything, they only say something like that to get attention.
+Maciej Jankowski Well, he said he knows what the next move immediately... I guess thats the explanation lol
+Ramiro El Gáname well - here is a thought. The brain actually does work in a sort of gradual process of data crunching and evaluation against known or innate reference points. Unconscious thinking, which precedes and always underlie conscious thinking takes vastly more data into consideration than consciousness does.
Conscious (convergent) thinking is biased and localized and processes as I recall around 60 bits per second, which is about the amount of information in a sentence or line in a book. The body, prior to that, processes more than 11 million bits per second. This process is unconscious (divergent) and delivers cues and results to consciousness that feels like intuitions, but which are really the result of experience and complex processing.
If one has an amazing memory and the experience of 10.000 full chess games - great intuitions are very likely to arrive as a result of unconscious processing. Unconscious processing - being more openended and wandering - may sometimes benefit from a round critical conscious evaluation, to sharpen some aspect or other, but really the amazing part of the job has already been done.
The rule is in fact: If you have a lot of experience within a field (a well trained unconscious) and if your mind has been presented with all relevant data in a thorough and focused way - the intuitions that follow are likely to be the best course of action, especially so when dealing with complex issues that require the delicate balancing of a wide array of factors.
This guy has very special abilities of course but the fundamental principles are not magical. He draws from a vast nonverbal, sensual well of preexisting knowlegde and his conscious and unconscious mind is highly trained in all relevant thought processes. It stands to reason that "just knowing" would be the result.
We all experience "just knowing". If you are good with words and you need a rhyme your unconscious probably just delivers one. You did not consciously consult a long list of all related words that you know and then deliberately pick one. One came to mind. Maybe several. "I thought of a rhyme" you'll say as if it was a systematic and calculated process. But really you asked and it was delivered to you. And then you took credit after the fact. You can then check against your actual memory and make a list to see if it was the best rhyme for the occasion. But your mind was already full of the occasion and primed for the task. So most likely the brain gave you the rhyme in question, either because it was obvious (cliche) or for more complex, and partly or wholly unconscious - but occasion-relevant reasons.
+Maciej Jankowski Good genes.
Interesting vid. but it doesn't really explains how his mind works...
Noone can. It just clicks into your mind, and you know the correct move, but you can't tell yourself why it is so good, or what the correct move is. As each move he makes, his mind subconsciously remembers evert move he has seen, and which ones work and why, and then each move comes into a single set of moves. Like each move he makes is completely unique. So he never makes quite the same decision because each game is slightly unique, it is slightly new because the game before effects his decision making.
Well unless he volunteers to get his mind picked by scientists (i think he has on some minor things) I doubt anyone will. Lets just say that he has a great mnemonic tool to remember all those games and he is a brilliant strategist to say the least.
Never been interested in chess, but that may be because even at easy the computer beats me every time. When it comes to chess I am at the bottom of the bucket. My mind works better on other areas. ;)
The OP wasn't pointing out Magnus's inability to describe how his mind works, he was pointing out that this video is not titled correctly.
There is a big deception in this world called "click bait"
I thought the video described it pretty well. He has exceptional memory and analysis skills that he uses in chess. He also never quite leaves the board, always planning, evaluating and thinking.
9 years later. Still the GOAT
If Magnus Carlsen wrote a book on memory, he could literally reitre right now.
He did write one but he couldn't remember where he'd put it.
@@davidcopson5800 lol... pretty good
@@davidcopson5800 😂
Magnus Carlsen is a role model honestly. He is a true gentlemen worthy of dignity and respect.
Not really tbh he laughs at his opponents and taunts them sometimes during matches.
@@theriptide9461 that is not allowed, right?
@@theriptide9461 some light bullying is part of every sport.
"chess is all about deception" -interviewer
mm, I dunno about that. at a low level, you can deceive people with tricks, but as you get to higher level, people don't really miss on threats you make. at that point, it's more about making threats that your opponent simply can't answer without creating weaknesses in their position (or just can't answer at all)
Spot on, as soon as he said that I knew this guy doesn't understand chess.
He's speaking for himself, or his group because deceive people is his strategy in REAL life. The covert hand of power.
@QuantumMan12 the rule of white starting first demonstrates inequality because it's fixed and presents an advantage
@@ucanthandledatruth01 That is traditional thinking but as man's understanding of chess evolves, particularly with powerful engines often coming up with superior moves no human would consider, the belief that moving first is an advantage is falling by the wayside, not completely, but most masters don't see it as a significant edge anymore.
@@StephenPaulTroup moving first and moving forward (advancing) always creates the first advantage, of course.
1:24 - If you keep playing enough you get an instinct, lets say you do enough patterns you then get situation were you know what the patterns is. It's a bit like muscle memory. In that you learn what those patterns look like and then you just do what you're suppose to do in that situation, now the only reason to calculate this is to make sure it pans out like the other times you did something.
Basically if you do something like tic tac toe, and you do it enough times you just know what you should do, if you do that with chess there is way more variables so it's not as simple, but the more you do it the more you get an instinct and the more it just makes sense to do that move.
However there is limit to this, if you play people that realise this then they will try limit how you learn and only do things in such a way that it is hard to over come this situation, I don't know how to explain this. So basically if you play AI it will not try limit it's move to make it hard for you to learn. If you play yourself over and over you will not limit your moves to stop yourself learning. But once you repeat and repeat and practice and practice you will get an instinct in most situations as to what makes sense. Also if you look at history as in look at all the championship games you can learn how champions think, so the more you study, the more you play an opponent not intentionally losing, or intentionally doing limited moves, you will learn a lot fast, as in play strong AI, and as long as you practice over and over you will gain an instinct as to what to do next.
Obviously Magnus Carlsen can do this at a high level, most likely from practising a lot or studying a lot, or maybe he just naturally sees patterns, and so he can get this instinct a lot faster then most people.
Also Magnus Carlsen has a great memory, I'm not sure if that is because he just focuses so much on Chess. I can remember old memories I like and around the date it happened. Maybe he studies over his old games like he would championship games, and so he would remember when it is. But still that is very hard for most to do, and obviously I think no one can really learn to have a better memory.
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@Kilo Mintoni Well there is some things you can do to improve memory, but it's limited, so no one can learn to have a better memory to the extent Magnus has.
“There’s not a false bone in his mind”
so that's his secret, secret bones in his mind.
@@J040PL7 *not
Makes him sound almost human
Ah yes ! the Boneless mind
Ah yes ! the Boneless mind
I love the ending
"Why were you trying to surprise him?"
"Just for the hell of it"
WTF? Thought this shit was only in cartoons..
He is the world champion after all.
Japanese Cartoon
The statist elite have fucked with language to the point that this culture perceives intelligence as a mental disorder.
To trust culture is to sacrifice your individuality, accepting that you are nothing but an animal, willingly and unknowingly allowing the political elite to be your masters, you are slaves.
Real sherlock holmes right here.
"it would be interesting to do 20 people, 10 is the most i've done"
Think i have heard that quote in a brazzers interview before
Yeah it was also Carlsen
Magnus told us that he can remember 10,000 games that he has played in the past.
Me: Forgot to turn on charging switch and come back 2 hours later to see.
60Min=4:30
Please tell me you are not that stupid?
Yeah, that's not how it works bud.
It's 60 Minutes Overtime. The logo is in the video. :D
These 3 idiots that replied before me are chess nerds
You people need to work on your grammar?
Of course this genius' name is Magnus
Hugh WOOT?
Hugh Mungus. Not Magnus.
+Not Qoure hugemongus. Got it.
humongasaur got it !
EatSleepBoard0 I met him when he was 18 months old and beat him easily
The greatest chess player of all time.
did this man just call the london eye "a big ferris wheel"... after saying carlson hadn't seen the sites xD
Charlie Sachse is it not a big Ferris wheel?
"Do you ever stop thinking about chess?" LOL
+Priya Desai "You got me. I was just thinking about chess. Shit."
+Priya Desai What did you say to me, little pawn?
he does, occasionally. others like Bobby Fischer didn't. and hear him talk in his old age. As if he was an alien.
It's common for geniuses to not remember having even made any mental calculations for arriving at the answer. He even related it to immediate "feeling."
It's like asking a boxer if he thinks about how what to do every move or where to land their punches. Most of it is instinct and habit, built upon 10,000 hours of experience. They can get it wrong sometimes, but in longer time controls in chess you have the time to check your moves or come up with better one. On the other hand, in boxing you have many moves to make so each individual mistake is generally not too costly to the match.
@@aphroditesaphrodisiac3272 I mean, he came to a DRAW against Kasparov as a 13 year old.
@@Danuxsy yeah that is amazing in itself but think about the fact that he is able to remember one random game of the thousands of games he has played over many years easily just by seeing the position
The subs at 1:44 💀
When Magnus sits across from you at a Chess table, it's all over but the handshake.
I've been coming back here every day since 2014 -it's now 2019 and I still don't know how his mind works
Yep, the video is still the same.
Keep coming one day you'll break the code language and you'll be free forever.
*Update: its 2020 now
his mind is probably 10x times better wired than the normal human being minds
and his chemical brain transmissions are way faster than normal, that's how he can recall information really fast, and replay a full game in half a minute
GOD GIFTED
once I tried to replay a game on board, it took me half an hour to remember!
Poker is all about deception, not chess.
Thought the same thing when he said that. And I don't even play poker.
Joe Amazon Poker is all about statistics.
+On3Thought Not really. Poker once you reach a certain level is much more about reading your opponent.
leerobbo92 Reading your opponents is unnecessary.
***** Dude, I think you replied to the wrong person... You basically just said exactly the same thing that I said.
Also, take a chill pill.
He looks promising. Maybe he will be a world champion one day !
yeah, I hope he had won in 2014 2016 and 2018.
He's good, but certainly no GM material.
Everyone after watching Queens Gambit once:
😂yeap
yes but can he spin his right arm outward while spinning his right leg to the left at the same time?
this is why I love comment section
Asking the real questions
😂😂😂😂😂 can't stop laughing
Who actually tried this?? 😂😂
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Ahahahaha I died laughing brow 😅
Look, this guy is amazing, no doubt. But if you are going to be in awe of someone and say no one else can do what he does, you cannot then be astounded that he played 10 games blindfolded. Great grandmasters of the past have done that with 25+ blindfolded simultaneous games. Many of the times it was against strong competitive players. The record for blindfold simultaneous games stands at 46.
at 21?
Look up Fabiano Caruana, Nigel Short, Gata Kamsky, Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer (the list could go on) All were capable of doing this as early as age 16 and even earlier for some.
Israel Ebr
(the list could go on)
Paul Andre
And here come you and dont even fucking read my post. I was commenting about the way the COMMENTATORS were astounded that he could play 10 simultaneous blindfolded games. That this in itself was an almost unique feat. My criticism was levied at the people who made the video not at your golden boy. I even acknowledged that he was amazing right at the beginning so even the most rabid fan would not misunderstand what I was trying to say.
And then came you.
Peace.
Morphy.
And here's Magnus after all these years still dominating chess
1:44 bro the captions are crazy
Put a smoking hot woman in front of him and he wouldn't know the next move
Gold
I'm purely making a joke of course. He seems like a pretty cool guy that probably does just fine.
he may not care, he truly just loves chess it seems
azurekirito That could be true too
bro he's rich as fuck...he can get any bitch brah
But can he play dota 2 tho?
Johnson Lee no, teammates would drag him down.
He will own meepo 1 v 5
dude will play on five different windows with five different accounts in one computer.
but can he beat minesweeper
Storm nope. too much cancer by the time he finished his battle fury all of his teammate already dead
I can't wait to see a new world chess champion. Not because I don't like Magnus, I actually think he's pretty cool, but his talent and intelligence are already insane, seeing someone even better is unfathomable to me. And exciting.
Unfortunately no one managed to dethrone him
"He wouldn't know how to deceive" lol his IQ is 190. He knows how to do a lot of things, including deceive.
Magnus his IQ isn't 190, he was never tested. I don't think people know how inaccurate the IQ scores given to chess players really are. Garry kasparov was supposed to have an IQ of 190 too but when he was actually tested he only scored an IQ score of 135 which is slightly above gifted. Only Bobby fischer was probably close to a genius IQ score since he was tested and scored an IQ of 180 at the age of 15, however today he would most likely score around 145 to 160 because of the difference and accuracy of tests today, which is still in the genius range. But even still, you can make an argument that high IQ results for children can be incredibly inflated thus Bobby Fischer's score of 180 might be inaccurate too but we will never know.
@@thesavantart8480 I agree that I.Q. tests fail to test all dimensions of intelligence and therefore are woefully inaccurate.
That said, Magnus Carlsen played ten games of chess simultaneously with his back to all the boards, via move notation. He remembered what was on each board based on spatial reasoning and memory, and won all the games. He said he would like to try with 20. I would be inclined to believe that he is a candidate for an actual 190 I.Q.
@@philippides I would not be so fast to suggest that about Magnus. One reason being that his ability to play 10 chess boards without looking does not necessarily suggest good memory or high intelligence. There are memory athletes who could potentially play 100 chess games or more without looking but their IQ's are nowhere near 190. The thing with great memory or intelligence is that it is supposed to be pretty general on all fields. Magnus may be able to play 10 chess games blindfolded but can he calculate 937×746 in less than a minute in his head? How quickly does he understand new information and how fast can he recall it? How many new problems can he hold in his head and manipulate? These are questions that, once answered, could give us an idea about how good his memory is and how intelligent he is because these questions are focused on his working memory and working memory is highly correlated with fluid intelligence. Exceptional fluid intelligent people can be scary smart but they are very, very rare. As an adult they can already look 10-20 moves ahead in chess after only learning the way pieces move and the basics of chess but they can still get beaten by someone who has more knowledge of chess, like opening theories etc. The keyword here is "knowledge" because that is 9 out of 10 times the only difference between someone who has high fluid intelligence and someone who does not. I enjoyed typing these comments, I hope some people learned something new today.
Garry Kasparov has an iq of 190. And Magnus has an iq of 190 too. Just Google it LoL.
@@tonmoysutradhar5705 uh, I think you are the one that needs to do a little bit more googling because everything I've said is true.
This is like me in math.
"How do you do this"
"I don't know, i just do it"
u mean in "meth"?
relax
do math not meth... it fucks you up twice as much
wut, half of math is about proofs. You have to prove how you came to the conclusion...
because we don't learn in school we memorize it
I can do 20......and lose to all of them of course.....
Honestly, I beat all of my family members, and I almost never think. I’m glad nobody has called the police yet...
lll•A_German_Ewok•lll maybe they just make you win so you wouldn't cry. Lovely family you have
Lmao you had me till the end
Oh my gosh I didn’t get that for a hot second 😂😂
"Do you ever stop thinking about chess".
"Yes sometimes" -Magnus