Magnus Carlsen's Mind-Blowing Memory! World Chess Champion tested

i'm now going to be showing magnus some historical chess positions let's see if he recognizes them [Music] this position i bet it looks familiar uh yeah uh this looks an awful lot like uh tal botwinic i think the continuation here was probably queen d5 and then rook a6 and uh one yes this is the 24th game from seville obviously you got that right should i go into the next one i was literally reading about this like this is the book that is on my bedside table about the cospar of carp of matches [Music] does this ring any bells yeah this is the old mating one uh the tricky tricky mist so this is anand ivanchuk from one of the uh intel rapid tournaments probably from like 95 or something 94 i think 94 yeah yeah you're completely correct [Music] now i'm going to play through an opening and stop me when you recognize the game and if you can tell me who was playing black in this one okay i'm sure you've seen this opening before okay it's going to be on against zabata what yeah uh 87 88 maybe 88 yeah yeah okay good one uh so this is like top three worst chess memories that i have this is the game carlson howell from world youth championship 2002. i needed to win the last game i was half a point in front of jana pognishi the most annoying part i remember about that last round is that on the promises he was playing against um indonesian player susilo natta i think he played a karukhan as black he had an extra pawn and a great position and then he just collapsed and i was losing my advantage as well and i just remember just raging like crazy uh uh obviously it got david uh a bronze medal so that's that's the good part go downhill from there wow 19 years ago and you still remember the game next to you i mean this could have been some bull game or i played or something that's a good guess that's a good guess i'm probably gonna need a hint okay it's from uh the entertainment industry is okay so black is down a queen so from the first harry potter movie they played the scandinavian and then they went knight c3 queen c6 so is it from from that one well done thank you okay needed some serious hints but it still could have been anything after the entertainment industry a good one though you

Channel: chess24

Views: 421,493

Rating: 4.9611111 out of 5

Keywords: chess, chess24, Magnus Carlsen, Carlson, World Chess Champion, Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, memory, memorisation, memorization, prodigy, feat, David Howell, New in Chess Classic, Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Ivanchuk, Vishy Anand

Id: eC1BAcOzHyY

Length: 3min 48sec (228 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 30 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Highcalibur10]

The Harry Potter guess is the one that blew me away.

I can understand him studying famous games or remembering his own past ones but that one was just insane.

[u/Raidion]

On twitter he replied to this clip: "They know this is my job right?🤷🏻‍♂️"

[u/DangerZoneh]

So for those of you who don’t know, Ian Nepomniachtchi, the guy who Magnus talks about in his junior tournament, just won the candidates tournament. This means that he’ll be challenging Magnus for the title of World Chess Champion in November! Crazy to think that these two have been rivals for so long. Ian seems to be able to get the better of Magnus in a way that few people can, so it’ll certainly be an exciting matchup!

[u/ReverseSociology]

Anyone have insight on the Kasparov/Karpov book Magnus said he was reading?

[u/PhesteringSoars]

Along with the incredible memory, he seems like a genuinely happy/friendly guy.

[u/herpabirpda]

I take longer to remember what I had for breakfast, and that was 6 hours ago. And I have the same breakfast every day.

[u/JuniusBobbledoonary]

I have the same depth of memory but instead of chess matches it's a detailed catalogue of people's socially awkward moments throughout life. And by people's I mean my own.

[u/thementant]

I need more of this. Why?

[u/cardface2]

Are the seemingly random ones really famous games, or were they actually randomly sampled from the thousands of grandmaster games played every year?