Magnus Carlsen Solves Chess Positions WITHOUT Seeing The Pieces
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Magnus Carlsen's brain is MASSIVE! Fellow GM David Howell tried to stump Magnus with different famous chess positions and Magnus got NEARLY EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
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This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen
@clasher3732
10 ай бұрын
same here how can I even sleep after that.
@grolusgaming
10 ай бұрын
Why is there only one answer?
@zDeityz
10 ай бұрын
Not as ridiculous as this ratio
@devsiva8497
10 ай бұрын
And he sacrifices.....
@sisterpaul3722
10 ай бұрын
Checkers pieeeeeece
If this was in a movie no one would find it believable
@madrabbit8722
15 күн бұрын
"Truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense"
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.
@bhardwaj_abhi
10 ай бұрын
Crazy Order😅
@rubayethasan8329
10 ай бұрын
Magnus who gets humbled by magnus
@theherk
10 ай бұрын
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.
@ucheodi9927
10 ай бұрын
He has no brain. That's a full grown computer processor.
@ashanmaynard4085
10 ай бұрын
Who get humbled by stockfish or alphazero
I Cannot even fathom the amount of chess knowledge he possess
@Johncornwell103
10 ай бұрын
He's probably forgotten more about chess than most avid chess players remember.
@HelgaCavoli
10 ай бұрын
Let's just say he gives occasional tips to Stockfish.
@Overlordsen
10 ай бұрын
@@Johncornwell103 for sure. im so sad that this legend has no interesst in playing world championships any more
@johnb.3570
10 ай бұрын
@@Johncornwell103 I'd say that, but I don't think this man is capable of forgetting anything.
@Johncornwell103
10 ай бұрын
@@johnb.3570 you're probably right
It’s okay Magnus, not all beginners can get 5/5
@vazorta
10 ай бұрын
I got 5/5 when I was just 9 years old; He’s a grown man I expect so much more from magnet
@user-df1ij9yc9z
10 ай бұрын
@@vazorta 💀
@lenn110
10 ай бұрын
@@vazortaMagnum sucks
@snwyn
10 ай бұрын
@@vazorta lmao Magnet
@shaktiprasadkv2807
10 ай бұрын
😅😅
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
@noobiechessjxwyspl
10 ай бұрын
My mom’s reaction was PRICELESS
@TheBatracho
10 ай бұрын
Yeah, this shit is nuts. The guy is superhuman.
@Mutualititve
10 ай бұрын
Who told you Magnus is human?
@ariavachier-lagravech.6910
10 ай бұрын
Magnus saying he doesnt really follow the World Championship is like those kids who said that they didnt study yet always get 100
@TheBatracho
10 ай бұрын
@@ariavachier-lagravech.6910 so true lol
Challenge: Recognize the position Magnus: Actually starts playing the match
@wraith_youtube
13 күн бұрын
And then gets slightly annoyed by himself when he's not 100% sure what the best move is 10 moves further.
I wanna see other super GMs do this to know how much more skilled magnus is
@sthembisomabaso8283
10 ай бұрын
Absolutely
@DzFarid
10 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure they can.
@compton8301
10 ай бұрын
Hikaru can. Actually, all super GMs can.
@Bcutter
10 ай бұрын
@@mathematicianjefferson a GM yes, not a super GM
@Surya-tripathi
10 ай бұрын
@@DzFarid I m pretty sure they can't apart from vishy Anand.
I’m disgusted that I can’t remember my chess position 2 moves ago.
@jaihind7687
10 ай бұрын
Lol
@benmugase
10 ай бұрын
yes
@Lol-qy1dy
10 ай бұрын
You are not alone 99.99998 % of population of people is with you
@pbezunartea
10 ай бұрын
*@ngare.k:* _I’m disgusted that I can’t remember my chess position 2 moves ago._ Join the club! 🤣🤣🤣
@shekarmc1780
10 ай бұрын
I belong to the same category😂😂😂
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!?
@jackywong4956
10 ай бұрын
Not too crazy as he said, this game is far too famous. Kasparov/ Fischer's immortals would have been seen by most chess lovers.
@opside231
10 ай бұрын
@@jackywong4956 you probably wouldn't even remember your position from a game from yesterday
@eric4334
10 ай бұрын
@@opside231 lmao true
@vazorta
10 ай бұрын
@@opside231I don’t remember a game from 10 minutes ago
@jackywong4956
10 ай бұрын
@@opside231 probably because they’re garbage, but could easily remember Kasparov/ Fischer’s immortal
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.
@thorham1346
8 ай бұрын
At his level it's probably easy.
the pieces exist in every possible state until Magnus recognizes them
@ksilver7198
10 ай бұрын
underrated comment
@gioelesnider9402
10 ай бұрын
Quantistic chess
@Tartcake
10 ай бұрын
witty
@hairtoss7975
10 ай бұрын
Nice.
@theuntitledgoose
10 ай бұрын
@@gioelesnider9402 bombastic chess
"I'm waiting for the camera". Savage.
I'm glad he pretended to miss a game so we think he's human and don't lose hope in ourselves
@rnxrutuj
10 ай бұрын
True
@ChristomirRackov
10 ай бұрын
Well, that was a fictional game though, wasn't it? :P
@tellahsage6477
8 ай бұрын
@@ChristomirRackov It was actually a real game that they chose to put on the show. Not a famous game though.
@ChristomirRackov
8 ай бұрын
@@tellahsage6477 I think they changed the line from the real game... But yeah, you do have a point - it's not 100% fictional. :)
magnus can tell where a QR code goes just by looking
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!
@moistmellow1198
10 ай бұрын
inhuman*
@simeon7450
10 ай бұрын
@@moistmellow1198 Inhumane treatment of the airthings modules.
@vlurpjuice8620
10 ай бұрын
@@moistmellow1198 Confidently Incorrect.
@OriginalPuro
10 ай бұрын
It's not inhuman if a human can do it.
@moistmellow1198
10 ай бұрын
@@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.
Next give a blank board and ask him guess the game.. Then we could catch him.. hopefully
@psyche1182
10 ай бұрын
Yeah hopefully but idk
@zenlanfleek6580
10 ай бұрын
Even with that, we won't. He would look at the ceiling to find the game.
@satyamjha18
10 ай бұрын
@@zenlanfleek6580you mean hikaru?
@DuncanEduardo
10 ай бұрын
He would just answer "every game" as no pieces yet
@shirow4004
10 ай бұрын
hopefully 💀
He really solved Chess with Checkers
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
2 ай бұрын
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.
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.
@Bruhecc
Ай бұрын
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
Dude has some super natural power... He plays and remembers the chess position perfectly.
@vandpiben
10 ай бұрын
synaesthesia
@Omnius-777
10 ай бұрын
@@vandpibenI can see where you’d think that but basically all the grandmasters can do this 💀
@Phanth43
10 ай бұрын
@@Omnius-777nah, supergms sure
@ayushrai4488
5 ай бұрын
@@Omnius-777 ONLY SUPERGMS
@Omnius-777
5 ай бұрын
Alright I understand-
0:53 levy walking in the background 😂
Magnus went home and memorized every game in Queen's Gambit, just in case. 🤣
@negativeRick
10 ай бұрын
😂
@jaideepshekhar4621
10 ай бұрын
Lol! 😂
@guillaumelagueyte1019
10 ай бұрын
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
@nevergiveup8441
10 ай бұрын
@@guillaumelagueyte1019পো
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.
@masters.1000
10 ай бұрын
Because they deceived him. It wasn't a real game.
@db5094
10 ай бұрын
@@masters.1000 yeah it was a bit mean haha
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.
@ninjasheeps3690
10 ай бұрын
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.
@07Lightless
4 ай бұрын
@@ninjasheeps3690perhaps this is the next stage above photographic minds. Just sheer brilliance in the head and brain.
@jupiterwarrior2645
Ай бұрын
@@ninjasheeps3690" Eidetic memory"
@ninjasheeps3690
Ай бұрын
@@jupiterwarrior2645 thats why i put a lil ' *"* '
@jupiterwarrior2645
Ай бұрын
even so just say eidetic lol photographic memory is yet to exist @@ninjasheeps3690
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
@the_bottomfragger
10 ай бұрын
Or he is in fact not a human and his database just doesn't cover fictitious games.
@alex86fire
9 ай бұрын
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...
@tomas9220
9 ай бұрын
blindfolded would of made is like 10 times easier due to the fact they would tell him which positio nthe pieces are in
@MT-dn4tu
2 ай бұрын
@@tomas9220 Would have, would have, would have, would HAVE, would. fucking. HAVE. I'm going to lose my mind.
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!
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.
@alex86fire
9 ай бұрын
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.
Magnus casually pretending to think just to get a good camera shot...😂😂😂
This is the content we waiting for. More Magnus and David please! 😅
@Airthings
10 ай бұрын
On it 🤝
"So Magnus is thinking" "No, I was just waiting for the cameras"
And here i wonder where i kept my phone
*sees a bunch of black and white circles on a chess board "This is a queen and this move is forced checkmate in 2"
@TheHilltopHermit
2 ай бұрын
How does White win?
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!
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.
@ACSMEX
10 ай бұрын
Yes. It's not only his inhuman memory, which he has, but the level of pattern recognition he possess.
@kimaboe
10 ай бұрын
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.
@angellestat2730
10 ай бұрын
@@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.
@ItsAsparageese
10 ай бұрын
@@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
@ItsAsparageese
10 ай бұрын
@@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.
Magnus just casually showing us how high is the gap between us mere people to an actual God in chess.
@peristiloperis7789
2 ай бұрын
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.
not only is this insane, but the move he played at the under 14 tournament at 7:18 was brilliant, what a mind
@macheteexport2749
9 ай бұрын
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.
Best chess player of all times. A phenomenal human being.
@mariethereserahal2094
6 ай бұрын
Correction : a phenomenal alien
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
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.
@cheetah219
8 ай бұрын
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
Next challenge: Magnus solves chess position that David Howell thinks in this mind
@ShirilS-go2om
10 ай бұрын
Magnus : I'm waiting for the camera, I got it.
@msmsvivoshetty3564
10 ай бұрын
😂😂
Bro humbled the entire planet
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.
The fact he remembers the moves after is just nuts too
My goodness. He even remembers 1999 WC game Kasparov v Topalov. Wished I had 10% of his memory.
@jedinxf7
10 ай бұрын
it's a very famous game, but the winning sequence was extremely long to remember without seeing the pieces lol
@perkl1234
9 ай бұрын
@@jedinxf7 Kasparovs immortal. Very educational and one of the few games with double rook sacrifice!
what an absolute GOAT
This makes me feel that I’m blind imaginatively
Find someone who looks at you the same way David looks at Magnus
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
He was just polite. Why would he ever need to know last one? Only human? As in not literally omniscient? Wow what a shocker
@aryangupta2466
10 ай бұрын
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
@DBCOOPER888
3 ай бұрын
@@aryangupta2466 In the earlier video they showed a game from Harry Potter that he knew, but they showed the pieces.
He is soo nonchalant about his genius. love it.
WOW!!! What a genius! That is so amazing. Of course, he missed the last one because it was from tv series. The GOAT!!!
@jayfrancelf
10 ай бұрын
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
@mlucas5354
10 ай бұрын
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
you cannot fathom how gifted this guy is
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.
Do they even realize what they have here? This NEEDS to be scientifically adapted as an experiment to study the science of pattern recognition.
Me: wait, did i get my Omega 3 pill this morning ?! Magnus: ohh.. this is the 2nd game of Kasparov in 1999
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.
Please send Magnus back to his home planet so that we humans can go back to play chess
Wish my pc ram had Magnuses memory
It's not enough to recognize them...He has to do it immediately.
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.
At this point I’m more than convinced his brain might actually be the absolute peak of human pattern recognition levels.
This dude is unreal.
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 can guess the position even if there is no piece on the board
Regardless of category or genre this might be the craziest thing ive ever seen, what do you even ssy about something like this
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.
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.
What an amazing memory. He’s a machine.
This is a mighty memory
Magnus should not be named GM anymore. He’s on his own league. Magnus is chess himself. Should get his own title. 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 👏👏👏
Truly the Mozart of chess.
@CeRz
10 ай бұрын
The notes doesn't even have to be played to be heard singing in his head ^-^
@A_Random_Pianist
10 ай бұрын
No he’s truly the Liszt of chess
@ndnd7614
10 ай бұрын
Mozart is overrated
@HassanIQ777
10 ай бұрын
Truly the Tchaikovsky of chess.
there's literally no words to describe how crazy that is
He is thinking… Magnus: uh..oh I’m just waiting for the camera 🥶
He is simply the Greatest Chess player .. GOAT
It's always admirable to watch you give a pro bono master class to a newcomer player in the chess scene. 😂
The most unbelievable part is how disappointed Magnus is that he didn't get the last one correct from a fictional game
magnus's smile is so sweet :D
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.
@abeurakadabeura
8 ай бұрын
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
@ChristomirRackov
8 ай бұрын
@@abeurakadabeura If you had won a game, you would have remembered it ;)
@abeurakadabeura
8 ай бұрын
@@ChristomirRackov Haha maybe one day I will know how that feels like to win a game. :')
The last position was insanely difficult. I cant imagine anybody solving it even if pieces was shown.
If I didn’t know how smart this man was, I wouldn’t believe this video was real.
I'm just thankful he uses his powers for good.
‘I was waiting for the camera’ said without Irony! Ha ha CLASSIC Magnus!! 👏🏻👍
It’s weird to realise I’m surprised he didn’t get the last one.. what a memory
What is impressive to me is that he is so quickly able to recognize that this is a game hes never seen...
Aliens walk among us.
dude by watching this it makes me feel like either he is an alien or im just dumb af
@NhatLinhNguyen-ru5lf
3 ай бұрын
Can be both 😂
@armandomarin371
29 күн бұрын
we are dumb
It's crazy. He missed the one that he has seen in a movie 😂 He has memorized every real game. That's crazy.
This is actually revoltingly incredible
Now we know that every other super GM's are competing for second place.
I couldn't remember a position I had last week let alone 1999 - even if it was an immortal game. Another level!
This is absolutely insane, 99% of chess players couldn’t name these positions while seeing the pieces
@harnageaa
10 ай бұрын
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.
@thorham1346
8 ай бұрын
99% of chess players are n00bs like me.
Okay, Now i confirm USA for proving there are aliens, one of them playing chess named Magnus…
What's next? David just thinking about the positions? 😢😂😂 Magnus is just insane.
@guillaumelagueyte1019
10 ай бұрын
OK Magnus, I'm thinking of a number between 1 and a million, what is it?
@soupisfornoobs4081
10 ай бұрын
@@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?
@colehanna4040
10 ай бұрын
@@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.
@soupisfornoobs4081
10 ай бұрын
@@colehanna4040 oh of course how did I forget about binary search. Thank you
Man's simply put, superhumanly insane !
i thought it was going to be someone just like listing the positions of the pieces with no board and was confused bc like yeah that's impressive but there are IMs who can do that, and then i clicked on the video and honestly cannot fathom how different this man's brain is. this is one of the most impressive things i've ever witnessed.
This might be the most impressive and unbelievable thing I have ever seen in my entire life
He is literally beyond genius