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    Chess Grandmaster solves a complex endgame puzzle in his head within seconds of hearing it


    Chess Grandmaster solves a complex endgame puzzle in his head within seconds of hearing it



    by thunderous9ight

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    2. thunderous9ight on

      Just in case if it’s not evident from the video, he is not able to see the position, he is just being told and has to imagine it all in his head. The board is added on the top of the video for the viewers.

      He is GM R. Praggnanandhaa from India who is currently
      ranked number 4 in the world.

    5. KryptonianCholo on

      We have brains that are capable of doing shit like this and yet here we are fighting over whose book is more right and if the planet is flat or not.

      edit: grammar

    6. William_Shaftner on

      I am not good at chess by any means but I dabble with chess puzzles that usually have one solution or tactic they’re emphasizing. So I thought a bunch of pawns would be placed to just muddy the waters.

      That he calculated all of that in his head without seeing anything and each pawn move was accounted for absolutely blows my mind.

    8. _oreNeT on

      Meanwhile be me, needing to recite my months out loud to know what number they correspond to.

    10. DrShoreRL on

      People are doing this and i forget to buy the one thing that made me go to the grocery store

    13. QuickTurnGames on

      In XIX century there was a genious like Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa too.

      “In 1858, chess master Paul Morphy did something that seems impossible even today – he played EIGHT opponents simultaneously while BLINDFOLDED… and WON EVERY SINGLE GAME!”

      You can read about it more on Post Chess Dark Secret.

      BTW. India is dominating now the table. 7/32 from India. Most of prodigies like Prag thanks to Anand success.

      https://preview.redd.it/n7lamcwuh4tf1.png?width=817&format=png&auto=webp&s=6940f644b33551c2b2b3608eee4a57f6e42120c5

    14. JohnySilkBoots on

      Dude seems pretty good at chess. And also seems like he has thousands of hours in it.

    15. hanskung on

      And the commentator checked his answer as fast as he found it? Are there more videos in other settings?

    18. CMG_exe on

      Seeing the gears turn here is genuinely scary, dudes brain is running on race gas compared to mine lol. 

    19. _lambher on

      Queen B7 then Queen B8 seems a good move as well, no?

      Edit: ah no if Black move pawn H6 it’s not mate in 2

    26. Shahariar_909 on

      For higher rated Grand master this is pretty normal. They don’t even need a board to play with each othe. It’s all in their head.

    29. allmond226 on

      I’m decent at chess and of course I could never do it in my head, but the puzzle itself isn’t that hard at all.

      The Black King has no fields to move to, so the basically has only one logical move is h7-h6 to give it one more field. So the only thing white has to think about is what would help against this one move, so only a few moves left that are even worth considering.

    31. Punksandaliens on

      He did that so fast I didn’t realize he had multiple answers. At first I was like hey that was way more than two turns then I realized what he was doing

    33. Carma_626 on

      I guess that’s pretty good, but I’d absolutely annihilate him in Street Fighter 2

    34. ConnectionIcy3717 on

      I would need the dragonballs, omnitrix, all the lantern rings, infinity gauntlets and batman’s plot armour to even begin to attempt this

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