This dude is just so far above... I float around 1900 FIDE which is good enough to beat 95% of people who play but get humbled by IMs who get humbled by GMs who get humbled by Super GMs who get humbled by Magnus. His brain is just wired different.
this is genuinely inhumane. I can't explain how incredibly impressive this is. knowing exact positions. the time of those positions. how to solve them and who had them, all from nothing!
@@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.
@@OriginalPuro do you know what hyperbole is? They meant it SHOULDN’T be humanly possible. Inhumane means cruel, abusive, etc. which makes zero sense in this context
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
I like how GM Dave Howell had to essentially resort to a game that Magnus would have only seen maybe once, in passing, on TV to get anywhere close to tripping him up. It's why Magnus is so incredibly difficult to beat, he has an unparellelled memory for chess positions. I wonder how many decades worth of chess positions he has at his finger tips. Also keep in mind that he's doing this without the benefit of any pieces as well. Incredible. Just incredible.
this is a million times more impressive than the last video. I could have recognized most of these positions with the pieces on easily enough, but to recognize them just from colored checkers is incredible.
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.
by the clickbait I was thinking it's gonna be a blindfolded challenge or something , but this one is insanely impressive , dude just remembered all positions from games 25 years ago that HE DIDN'T EVEN PLAY I really enjoyed the fact you just threw in the queens gambit position with like 5 pieces on the board that basically gives him no info but still he isn't human , just amazing
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...
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.
I wish I could spend 1 hour in Magnus's head just to experience how he sees the world and chess. His memory is absolutely in the top percentile and I just have to believe he truly sees the world in a very very unique way
@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
GM Magnus Carlsen is the GOAT. Great interviewing skills by GM David Howell as well. But can we just take a moment to appreciate the production quality of this video!
Imagine being young starting up in chess thinking I’m going to be the best in the world, then you see this video and realise the absolute ridiculousness required to reach that level.
Such a creative way to illustrate his talent and genius to the rest of us peddling in the sewers 😂 I'd love to see him prove himself once again and sprint past 2900 in Classical by doing another round of global domination. I'll be cheering for you, Magnus.
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.
This memory is similar to the ones we see from concert pianist for example. Pianist can remember thousands of songs that have thousands notes by song. Many times there is no need to remember each exact note because they know what pattern should follow. If you show Magnus a board with pieces on positions that can not be reach in a normal game, he would find much harder to remember the position of each piece.
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.
Almost every moment of every day, if Magnus isn't playing or studying chess, he's going over chess positions in his head... and it's not discipline at all, the dude just literally loves chess and never gets bored or tired of it. So envious of someone who gets this much enjoyment out of the one thing they're best at.
Whats interesting about Magnus is that if you didn't know who he was youd just think he was a normal dude. Most geniuses seem to be socially weird or "nerdy" but Magnus is just a good looking socially adept dude.
The basic combination he played against Hammer in position 4, called Anastasia's Mate, was the very first real combination I got to pull off in tournament chess 41 years ago (1982). I was an up-and-coming 1586, and I beat a 2075, who took a pawn on d4, and missed Qh7+ Kh7 Rh3# (with a Ne7 in place that he thought my last move, Qh4, was simply defending). He was also the strongest player I had beaten to that point in only my 7th tournament. Every time I see that mate, it brings back good memories. Magnus' memory is just incredible. WOW!
this video is gonn become legendary, mark my words. the way some old videos appear of athletes doing insane stuff, this is the equivalent but right now. in my opinion, the most impressive thing ive seen in my life
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 almost unfathomable the brain power you must have to be able to store hundreds of thousands of individual positions to the point you can recognise them based of colour alone. The man is a genius by every definition of the word
On the one hand, I think Magnus's ability to recognize patterns in combination with the fact that the games chosen were very well known make it seem like Magnus has a lot more memorized than he really does. But on the other hand, holy moly. That dude has a truly beautiful mind.
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
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
That is insane... grandmasters remember thousands if not tens of thousands of positions in their lifetime but to recall games you didn't even play and not even knowing the pieces position is truly remarkable. Just shows how big of a gap there is between the world's great and amateur level, I think some people are just inately born for chess lol.
On that last one, there's also context. Magnus has an incredible mind and memory, but he was probably expecting real games, not fictional games from a movie, so he may have filtered out that possibility before he even saw the setup.
One of the craziest things about this is that Magnus probably has seen and played more games than 99% of the world’s chess players, and even then he can still pull this off.
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
Imagine this kind of disparity in the physical domain. Most of us can bench press 100-and-some pounds, some guys can bench up to a few hundred....then along comes one guy who can bench press a trillion tons, and run at 0.95 times the speed of light. It's just beyond imagination.
@@guillaumelagueyte1019that raises an interesting question, how many yes/no questions would you need to narrow down any number from 1 to a million? Or 1 to 100?
@@soupisfornoobs4081 With a perfect strategy you can eliminate exactly half of all remaining possibilities with each guess so you could guess any number from 1 to 2^n in exactly n guesses.
So the only position he didn't get wasn't even a real game. It's basically 4/4. What helps Magnus is that, as he says, the position is either very famous, or his own games, or a very recent WC game. This is still ridiculously impressive no matter how you look at it.
You put this sort of scene in a movie and I would call BS so effin' hard. And yet here is Magnus doing it IRL. I can't believe I'm the same species as this guy.
I have been looking at every Magnus' Banter Blitz over the last few years. Still, when I look at videos like this, I perceive his strength differently. He is barely human.
I think it's cool and interesting that the fictional position is the only one he can't remember. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of real top-level games, but a game cooked up by TV writers (albeit with the help of Bruce Pandolfini) does not register with him in the same way. Looking again at that last one, it reads much more like a Pandolfini-type chess puzzle than a true competitive game.
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.
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.
The only reason I think Magnus didn't remember the last game is that probably it is not a game he would have studied for his own improvement most likely. Yes the games in the series were based on historic games but there were changes made and so the resulting critical positions are not historic.
So nice to also have a WCH (we all know) not the typical stereotypical nerd, instead looking like a greek god. Gives more popularity to chess, much like Fischer
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This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen
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
If this was in a movie no one would find it believable
"Truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense"
Challenge: Recognize the position
Magnus: Actually starts playing the match
And then gets slightly annoyed by himself when he's not 100% sure what the best move is 10 moves further.
magnus can tell where a QR code goes just by looking
Oh my fucking lord i never thought about that, it would be insane!😭
Hey Magnus scan this QR code !
Magnus: No I know it it's a Rick Roll
This dude is just so far above... I float around 1900 FIDE which is good enough to beat 95% of people who play but get humbled by IMs who get humbled by GMs who get humbled by Super GMs who get humbled by Magnus. His brain is just wired different.
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
the most hilarious part of the video is the fact that magnus is so utterly chill the entire time, like it's not even difficult.
At his level it's probably easy.
This is just crazy, he said he wasn't even following the world championship that closely but still remembers the positions... This guy isn't human
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
the pieces exist in every possible state until Magnus recognizes them
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Quantistic chess
witty
Nice.
@@gioelesnider9402 bombastic chess
So he finds a 10 move sequence of a game that was played 24 years ago without seeing the pieces? Do people realize how crazy it is!?
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
this is genuinely inhumane.
I can't explain how incredibly impressive this is.
knowing exact positions. the time of those positions. how to solve them and who had them, all from nothing!
inhuman*
@@moistmellow1198 Inhumane treatment of the airthings modules.
@@moistmellow1198 Confidently Incorrect.
@@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.
@@OriginalPuro do you know what hyperbole is? They meant it SHOULDN’T be humanly possible. Inhumane means cruel, abusive, etc. which makes zero sense in this context
It’s okay Magnus, not all beginners can get 5/5
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
😅😅
Magnus went home and memorized every game in Queen's Gambit, just in case. 🤣
😂
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
@@guillaumelagueyte1019পো
I’m disgusted that I can’t remember my chess position 2 moves ago.
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😂😂😂
I like how GM Dave Howell had to essentially resort to a game that Magnus would have only seen maybe once, in passing, on TV to get anywhere close to tripping him up. It's why Magnus is so incredibly difficult to beat, he has an unparellelled memory for chess positions. I wonder how many decades worth of chess positions he has at his finger tips. Also keep in mind that he's doing this without the benefit of any pieces as well. Incredible. Just incredible.
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'm waiting for the camera". Savage.
Dude has some super natural power... He plays and remembers the chess position perfectly.
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-
I Cannot even fathom the amount of chess knowledge he possess
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
this is a million times more impressive than the last video. I could have recognized most of these positions with the pieces on easily enough, but to recognize them just from colored checkers is incredible.
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'm glad he pretended to miss a game so we think he's human and don't lose hope in ourselves
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. :)
He seems somewhat disappointed at the very end. You know that's a true champion right there as they are NEVER satisfied with less than perfection.
Because they deceived him. It wasn't a real game.
@@masters.1000 yeah it was a bit mean haha
@@masters.1000 I think he was just disappointed in himself for not getting it
I wanna see other super GMs do this to know how much more skilled magnus is
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.
by the clickbait I was thinking it's gonna be a blindfolded challenge or something , but this one is insanely impressive , dude just remembered all positions from games 25 years ago that HE DIDN'T EVEN PLAY
I really enjoyed the fact you just threw in the queens gambit position with like 5 pieces on the board that basically gives him no info but still he isn't human , just amazing
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.
Next give a blank board and ask him guess the game.. Then we could catch him.. hopefully
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 💀
I wish I could spend 1 hour in Magnus's head just to experience how he sees the world and chess.
His memory is absolutely in the top percentile and I just have to believe he truly sees the world in a very very unique way
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
Magnus casually pretending to think just to get a good camera shot...😂😂😂
GM Magnus Carlsen is the GOAT. Great interviewing skills by GM David Howell as well. But can we just take a moment to appreciate the production quality of this video!
0:53 levy walking in the background 😂
Nice catch 😁
Imagine being young starting up in chess thinking I’m going to be the best in the world, then you see this video and realise the absolute ridiculousness required to reach that level.
He really solved Chess with Checkers
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Such a creative way to illustrate his talent and genius to the rest of us peddling in the sewers 😂 I'd love to see him prove himself once again and sprint past 2900 in Classical by doing another round of global domination. I'll be cheering for you, Magnus.
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.
Rapid is easily the best chess format. Not too long for it to be boring, but not too short for immediate time scramble.
This is the content we waiting for. More Magnus and David please! 😅
On it 🤝
At this point I’m more than convinced his brain might actually be the absolute peak of human pattern recognition levels.
"So Magnus is thinking"
"No, I was just waiting for the cameras"
not only is this insane, but the move he played at the under 14 tournament at 7:18 was brilliant, what a mind
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.
Next challenge: Magnus solves chess position that David Howell thinks in this mind
Magnus : I'm waiting for the camera, I got it.
😂😂
*sees a bunch of black and white circles on a chess board
"This is a queen and this move is forced checkmate in 2"
How does White win?
My goodness. He even remembers 1999 WC game Kasparov v Topalov. Wished I had 10% of his memory.
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!
This memory is similar to the ones we see from concert pianist for example.
Pianist can remember thousands of songs that have thousands notes by song.
Many times there is no need to remember each exact note because they know what pattern should follow.
If you show Magnus a board with pieces on positions that can not be reach in a normal game, he would find much harder to remember the position of each piece.
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.
He was just polite. Why would he ever need to know last one? Only human? As in not literally omniscient? Wow what a shocker
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.
Almost every moment of every day, if Magnus isn't playing or studying chess, he's going over chess positions in his head... and it's not discipline at all, the dude just literally loves chess and never gets bored or tired of it. So envious of someone who gets this much enjoyment out of the one thing they're best at.
Whats interesting about Magnus is that if you didn't know who he was youd just think he was a normal dude. Most geniuses seem to be socially weird or "nerdy" but Magnus is just a good looking socially adept dude.
The basic combination he played against Hammer in position 4, called Anastasia's Mate, was the very first real combination I got to pull off in tournament chess 41 years ago (1982). I was an up-and-coming 1586, and I beat a 2075, who took a pawn on d4, and missed Qh7+ Kh7 Rh3# (with a Ne7 in place that he thought my last move, Qh4, was simply defending). He was also the strongest player I had beaten to that point in only my 7th tournament.
Every time I see that mate, it brings back good memories.
Magnus' memory is just incredible. WOW!
this video is gonn become legendary, mark my words. the way some old videos appear of athletes doing insane stuff, this is the equivalent but right now. in my opinion, the most impressive thing ive seen in my life
Magnus just casually showing us how high is the gap between us mere people to an actual God in chess.
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 almost unfathomable the brain power you must have to be able to store hundreds of thousands of individual positions to the point you can recognise them based of colour alone. The man is a genius by every definition of the word
chess deserves more hype, there is no athlete, academic or artist that is as far ahead of their peers as magnus is to the chess world.
On the one hand, I think Magnus's ability to recognize patterns in combination with the fact that the games chosen were very well known make it seem like Magnus has a lot more memorized than he really does. But on the other hand, holy moly. That dude has a truly beautiful mind.
Best chess player of all times.
A phenomenal human being.
Correction : a phenomenal alien
Next time give him an empty board and ask him to guess the position you are thinking in your head😂😂. Who knows, he might do that too
1:25 David: okay he's thinking
Magnus: *I'm waiting for the camera*🗿
‘I was waiting for the camera’ said without Irony! Ha ha CLASSIC Magnus!! 👏🏻👍
What is this? I mean... I can't even process this video... Are you guys looking at the same thing I'm looking???
what an absolute GOAT
9:56 "You heard it here first he's just human," cuts to Carlson simmering.
The fact we live in a world with so much social media and internet we can actually record so much of this mans genius is astounding.
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
WOW!!! What a genius! That is so amazing. Of course, he missed the last one because it was from tv series. The GOAT!!!
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
That is insane... grandmasters remember thousands if not tens of thousands of positions in their lifetime but to recall games you didn't even play and not even knowing the pieces position is truly remarkable. Just shows how big of a gap there is between the world's great and amateur level, I think some people are just inately born for chess lol.
What is impressive to me is that he is so quickly able to recognize that this is a game hes never seen...
dude by watching this it makes me feel like either he is an alien or im just dumb af
Can be both 😂
we are dumb
On that last one, there's also context. Magnus has an incredible mind and memory, but he was probably expecting real games, not fictional games from a movie, so he may have filtered out that possibility before he even saw the setup.
He can guess the position even if there is no piece on the board
When the AIs take over, at least humanity has a chance with Magnus on our side
And here i wonder where i kept my phone
"I didn't follow too closely" means I know all the positions of the games but didn't run them through all the variations in my head.
One of the craziest things about this is that Magnus probably has seen and played more games than 99% of the world’s chess players, and even then he can still pull this off.
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. :')
@@abeurakadabeura Any updates? Have you won a game yet?
Magnus is the biggest Chad who ever lived. I am just continually in awe.
It’s weird to realise I’m surprised he didn’t get the last one.. what a memory
Imagine this kind of disparity in the physical domain. Most of us can bench press 100-and-some pounds, some guys can bench up to a few hundred....then along comes one guy who can bench press a trillion tons, and run at 0.95 times the speed of light. It's just beyond imagination.
Me: wait, did i get my Omega 3 pill this morning ?!
Magnus: ohh.. this is the 2nd game of Kasparov in 1999
This is absolutely ridiculous. I'm not even sure I could recognize a daily game I'm CURRENTLY playing under these rules.
This is the sheer sharpness of a genius
I think most SGM are able to do similar to this. Please test Hikaru next. Hikaru is also insane on remembering positions.
He is simply the Greatest Chess player .. GOAT
Human brain is magnificent and a prime example Magnus !!! Dude played million's of games and remembered every one of them . Deserve huge applause 👏👏👏
What's next? David just thinking about the positions? 😢😂😂 Magnus is just insane.
OK Magnus, I'm thinking of a number between 1 and a million, what is it?
@@guillaumelagueyte1019that raises an interesting question, how many yes/no questions would you need to narrow down any number from 1 to a million? Or 1 to 100?
@@soupisfornoobs4081 With a perfect strategy you can eliminate exactly half of all remaining possibilities with each guess so you could guess any number from 1 to 2^n in exactly n guesses.
@@colehanna4040 oh of course how did I forget about binary search. Thank you
So the only position he didn't get wasn't even a real game. It's basically 4/4. What helps Magnus is that, as he says, the position is either very famous, or his own games, or a very recent WC game. This is still ridiculously impressive no matter how you look at it.
you cannot fathom how gifted this guy is
You put this sort of scene in a movie and I would call BS so effin' hard. And yet here is Magnus doing it IRL. I can't believe I'm the same species as this guy.
1:24
David: Okay , he is thinking..
Magnus : No no , i am waiting for the camera!💀
Cold 🥶
The only game I can remember is the Nakamura vs Carlsen bongcloud draw
What an amazing memory. He’s a machine.
Do they even realize what they have here? This NEEDS to be scientifically adapted as an experiment to study the science of pattern recognition.
The last position was insanely difficult. I cant imagine anybody solving it even if pieces was shown.
Next: Magnus Carlsen plays chess without the chess pieces.
Truly the Mozart of chess.
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.
@@ndnd7614 Mozart is extremely overrated, he died too soon to be at the level of Bach
What's next?
David: Magnus, here is a blank board.
Magnus: Naka vs Bortnyk, 2021 Bullet championship.
I have been looking at every Magnus' Banter Blitz over the last few years. Still, when I look at videos like this, I perceive his strength differently. He is barely human.
Magnus should not be named GM anymore. He’s on his own league. Magnus is chess himself. Should get his own title. GOAT
It's crazy. He missed the one that he has seen in a movie 😂 He has memorized every real game. That's crazy.
If I didn’t know how smart this man was, I wouldn’t believe this video was real.
It's always admirable to watch you give a pro bono master class to a newcomer player in the chess scene. 😂
Okay, Now i confirm USA for proving there are aliens, one of them playing chess named Magnus…
he recognises chess positions like faces, its incredible.
This makes me feel that I’m blind imaginatively
I think it's cool and interesting that the fictional position is the only one he can't remember. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of real top-level games, but a game cooked up by TV writers (albeit with the help of Bruce Pandolfini) does not register with him in the same way. Looking again at that last one, it reads much more like a Pandolfini-type chess puzzle than a true competitive game.
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.
Find someone who looks at you the same way David looks at Magnus
This is absolutely insane, 99% of chess players couldn’t name these positions while seeing the pieces
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.
The Queens Gambit games are hard to remember because 1. you dont see the whole game , 2. it doesnt matter in the world of professional chess.
The only reason I think Magnus didn't remember the last game is that probably it is not a game he would have studied for his own improvement most likely. Yes the games in the series were based on historic games but there were changes made and so the resulting critical positions are not historic.
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So nice to also have a WCH (we all know) not the typical stereotypical nerd, instead looking like a greek god. Gives more popularity to chess, much like Fischer