1:59 I love how he says he has been reading all of their transcripts, but he didn't bother learning their names... not that it's important, but still. Makes the lie more believable.
And, if he has to wait for the other player to move, it means he would have to go around 2-3x for every move at least. Probably way more. Which made the whole thing seem really weird to chess pros.
I saw a simpler way to rig this a decade or two back: the chessboards were arranged in a hotel lobby around a large solid diameter circular column, so no player could see the adjacent games. The trickster walked around the outside, from board to board, and only had to remember one move, because the layout meant that he did not have to separate the players who were playing each other.The other way he made it easy on himself was to have an even number of players. This simplified hustle would not require any chess playing skill whatsoever to "win" half the games against the world's best, and makes minimal demands on memory.
Prometheus4096 What? No... The trick was playing them against each other and beating one of them. Also, I don't mean to be rude at all, but it's 'taught' not 'learned' if you're looking for the past tense of someone teaching something to someone else.
Patrik Manni Yes. It is an old well known trick among chess players. Has been used several times by correspondence chess players. And 'to teach' and 'to learn' are two different verbs. No idea why you are confused about that.
Prometheus4096 You said "Chess players learned him...". That makes no sense. It's supposed to be "Chess players taught him..." or "He learnt this trick from...".
I think the mistake in the "prediction" is not an accident. The paper inside the envelope had a 6 on the front of it all along. With some excellent sleight of hand, Derren sticks the paper with the rest of the numbers to the piece of paper with the 6 which the chess player is holding. So the piece with the 6 never leaves the man's hand and the 6 is in sight the whole time. I'm guessing 6 is statistically the most likely number of pieces left on a chess board when a game is over. Derren got quite lucky, because he was only one off. Ofcourse, he would have been REALLY lucky if that player had had exactly 6 pieces left :-)
***** I don't understand why he didn't make the trick with 100% though - there was a game which finished with 6 pieces, he could just use it instead of applying the prediction "6" to the game which finished with 7 pieces.
My guess is that Derren managed to get Graham Lee on table #1 in on the trick. And he didn't play table 1 v. table 5, he played table 5 v. table 9. So when Derren used sleight of hand opening the letter, Graham didn't protest since he was in on the trick. The mistake at the beginning serves to deflect attention away from Graham. OK I'm sorry, after looking at the results, it couldn't have been exactly like that. But is it possible Derren somehow brought two games back to Graham--one they played on the table, and another they signaled to each other based on game #9? It's not unheard of for a master to play two games at once, especially when one of them is against the president of a chess club who is not ranked.
You can see exactly how he does the numbers trick if you pay close attention when he takes the folded up paper from the chess guy. When he takes it, he hides it behind another folded up paper, and then keeps it hidden between the paper as it is unfolded. It's sleight of hand.
@tassay You’re right, but the pro’s would understand they were playing a poor game. But I was mistaken, I understand how he did it, the players did effectivaly play between each other. Table 1: memorize player 1’s move Table 5: Play player 1’s move Wait for player 5 to play memorize player 5’s move Table 1: Play player 5’s move Wait for player 1 to play Got to the start.
Funny how none of the players found it normal for some games to be played with the white and some with the black pieces by Darren. Darren should be getting the white pieces in all games, per normal procedure.
hthought that wouldn't change much. There's a way to transform the boards colours backwards in your brain. Just mirror and flip then invert the colours
@@ComedyPal667 It's not about color, it's about who moves first. White always makes the first move, thus mirroring an opponent against another opponent becomes effectively impossible unless their starting order is also mirrored.
I would find a task like this incredibly difficult catering to only 2 pairs of games. To do that with four pairs while SIMULTANEOUSLY playing a real game of chess is absolutely stunning. This man's mental capacity is mind-blowing.
ostkartong I know nothing about magic, but some kinda weird something goes on from 6:18 - 6:21. During that time, he's actually physically holding the papers in his hand, directing how exactly how it's unfolded, etc, using the 6 (the number he got wrong) as a shield. 3 seconds seems like an eternity in the world of sleight of hand. Also, whether he's technically lying is probably completely meaningless because all of that, "As you can see, there are no mirrors," type of talk that magicians do is just a misdirection anyway. Who cares that he never touches the envelope? It seems to have successfully distracted us from the fact that he unnecessarily grasps and spins and unfolds the paper itself, even though the assistant is probably wholly capable of unfolding a piece of paper.
Brown probably payed Chan off here.... Chans rated 1500 and that aint that bad.. to be sure to win derren would have to be around 1700+ and that while remembering all the moves on the other tables. Many players play for years without reaching 1700 + rating so Chan was likely bribed..
Probably my favorite Derren Brown. I love proper planning and preparation and the high you get when you succeed, not the recognition you get for doing it but being recognized that you did it. You know what I mean?
this could be done better with radio micro-earphone and a computer computers nowadays play better than top humans, so they can beat average grandmaster easily get an assistant who would watch through hidden camera, input human moves into computer and tell magician which peace to move and you dont even need to know chess rules
Seems plausible. The only issue is that even an average chess hobbiest can tell they are playing against a computer after a dozen or so moves, let alone grandmasters.
Well, that depends on what you mean by better. It wasn't about beating people at chess most efficiently, it was about what he was able to do by memory.
I figured out what he was doing as soon as I saw half the players had opposite colors, but the execution and the additional trick of "predicting" pieces left over were excellent showmanship.
This supports my theory that most TH-cam video titles are lies. (in this one, the lie is that he beats the 9 players- obviously false to anyone who's watched the video) #MostTH-camVideoTitlesAreLies
I really enjoyed this. They were actually playing each other, he was merely exhibiting a fantastic ability to remember things. As for the prediction of number of pieces left, that was his magician persona tossed in for fun. He pulled a trick on that one somehow or another, lol.
@woyay but how he was able to predict each games end - how many pieces would be left for each game - before they even started playing is my question. don't understand how he could do that no matter how good his memory..
This is impossible to do the way he explained it. From what I could see he started playing as black and opened c5 against whites e4. He divided all of them into pairs, meaning that the other pair across from the "e4-c5"-table have to play exactly the same as the "e4-c5"-table. Let's say he try to copy the e4 move at the other table, and his opponent answers with for example e5, then it's suddenly a totally different game and he's screwed right from beginning.
Sure thing In modern day chess involving games played by advanced and tournament/club players, White wins about 34.7% while black wins about 24.4% of all games. The remaining 40.9 are Drawn games. There have been many studies into this concept past and present. If it came down to one game to sway the balance of the decision for Derren in this clip, being white gave him an edge. Not a guarantee mind you, but he was aware of this without question.
Holy smokes, that is a very clever way to simultaneously play nine games of chess -- four against grandmasters -- and come out on top overall. It's something that I now want to try, as that was just... wow. Clever.
6:17 the moment when he comes back he tug onto the paper, its at this moment he executes a good-ole-magician trick, thus making it seem like he predicted a numbers, the mirror chess setup was a very great system he discovered, that is amazing
As far as the numbers at the end, it seemed like there was some slight of have have fuckery when he had the guy show it to the room. He probably wrote it down after
Having played a lot of chess, and not being too shabby at it, I new his trick the second the cameras showed the boards alternating. I knew at some level he was just mimicking games. Brilliant trick though!
@Rimber6 You don't get it. He never really opened. On the boards where he was white, he played the moves his opponents on the other side of the room played before him.
lol 'i genuinely can't remember' XD way to leave us hanging!! brilliant tho. good way to look like an amazing chess player, funny how they were just playing each other. love it!
just remembering the moves makes it amazing anyways. It was awesome and a nice little trick. Also the number of pieces left he predicted was some trick I don't think I would figure out
Its important to also see that this could be done on any number of people at the same time. as long as you can remember 2 digts for each game skipped (the notation of the move) I dont think there is a pocket trick with the number. It is 2 sided to be sure, 1 number is wrong (which happens to be the game he actually played). Most obvious explination I can think of is by looking at end game positions of games recorded for that specific player.
+Cellkist He just played 9 masters simultaneously and beat them all as a collective AND predicted the number of pieces left even before the game started. And its Derren..
I think this only should work with decieve games. with if board 1 and 2 are paired up against eachoter. And for instand 1 offers a draw, he accepts, and 2. where he offers the draw plays on. What would happen then?
At the same time, it's his turn to play on one of the boards and his opponent's turn to play in the other board. They are using different colors, he's not playing at the same color in both to allow his opponent to make different options.
@IEatCray0ns If i recall correctly I think at the beginning of the show, he was a bystander that picked up the pay phone when it rang. He past out like that, and suddenly gained consciousness later on at the end of the show.
@BillMan2002 he explains in the video, there is a pattern to each player he goes against, he just repeats another players move against another player, in other words he is a vessel for a chess match between different players.
It's not about figuring out the trick, it's about using his technics, which he also describe in his book; "Derren Brown - Tricks of the Mind". It's about memorising patterns, and how to use them.
@Tweakisher no they would eventually play a different move and even if he then went to the other board and play the same move, he would possibly get a different result depending on how far into the game he was going.
@NightHawk0085 That leaves the problem of Chan responding differently than the player he is supposed to mimic, leaving an entirely different boardstate in just a few turns.
@Darth814Vader keep in mind he claims he was playing one real game of chess, but at the same time he was getting a variety of moves and ideas from grand/international masters. Also, Derren has exceptional memory (the average human can only remember 7 things at once, and he was able to remember 8 while playing a game of real chess). Derren probably has studied chess quite be on par with great players and felt confident in his playing ability.
I agree. The last guy, Robert Chan is president of king's college London, chess society, so he is the head of a club or something of the sort. So that case, you have to be looking at him being somewhere around the 1600-1800+ range ELO. Derren Brown must be somewhere around there to beat him.
Whatever move player #1 does, he will do against player #2. the reaction of player #2 he will do against player #1. Then repeat that process so basicly player #1 and #2 are playing against eachother. It doesn't matter what move they do, he will always copy it.
ever wondered what chess moves sound like when u put musical scales on the chessboard? I have created a sound formula for converting chess moves into sounds
@NameMoon I think you're up to something there. Most magician wanted some kind of recognition of magical power that they possess after the performance they did. Otherwise, there is no point of doing these performances. The reason he gives away the "secret" of his success is because he wants us to think that these were legitimate chess games while in fact each game was all pre-memorized by each players. Yeah, good touch on the number "6" mistake. It makes most of us a believer.
Make no mistake, they did to. This is a very well known and easy to think of trick that everyone who has played a decent amount of chess would have both though about themselves or heard about. Everyone in the room knew what was going on, the only thing I'm surprised about is that the GM's were pretty decent at pretending to be fooled.
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1:59 I love how he says he has been reading all of their transcripts, but he didn't bother learning their names... not that it's important, but still. Makes the lie more believable.
nicee, "have been analysing your gus game for a year, ... what's your name?" xD
hahhahaha so true xD
I wonder if any of them found it odd that he'd wait at their board for them to move, and then walk away before moving himself. I imagine yes.
And, if he has to wait for the other player to move, it means he would have to go around 2-3x for every move at least. Probably way more. Which made the whole thing seem really weird to chess pros.
Omg. An ancient Jerry comment on a random chess video! Almost feels like I've found a hidden treasure.
@@TTArt wow that’s crazy actually
Not to say those opposing colors lol
I saw a simpler way to rig this a decade or two back: the chessboards were arranged in a hotel lobby around a large solid diameter circular column, so no player could see the adjacent games. The trickster walked around the outside, from board to board, and only had to remember one move, because the layout meant that he did not have to separate the players who were playing each other.The other way he made it easy on himself was to have an even number of players. This simplified hustle would not require any chess playing skill whatsoever to "win" half the games against the world's best, and makes minimal demands on memory.
He said his chess game was shit, yet he can still beat the president of the chess club at London college. Hah. Ok.
You watched the whole video, right?
Josh S Did either of YOU two watch the whole video? At the end of the video he said he was playing one real game at table 9, which we won.
Steven Axe Lol two idiots
Josh S Are you stupid? Jesus.
+Albert Lovejoy No, he's just trying a terrible backtrack.
Chess players hate him, but you can use this one weird trick.
Chess players learned him this trick/ he did a google search and copied their method.
Prometheus4096 What? No... The trick was playing them against each other and beating one of them. Also, I don't mean to be rude at all, but it's 'taught' not 'learned' if you're looking for the past tense of someone teaching something to someone else.
Patrik Manni
Yes. It is an old well known trick among chess players. Has been used several times by correspondence chess players.
And 'to teach' and 'to learn' are two different verbs. No idea why you are confused about that.
Prometheus4096 You said "Chess players learned him...". That makes no sense. It's supposed to be "Chess players taught him..." or "He learnt this trick from...".
Patrik Manni
cool story bro
I think the mistake in the "prediction" is not an accident. The paper inside the envelope had a 6 on the front of it all along. With some excellent sleight of hand, Derren sticks the paper with the rest of the numbers to the piece of paper with the 6 which the chess player is holding. So the piece with the 6 never leaves the man's hand and the 6 is in sight the whole time.
I'm guessing 6 is statistically the most likely number of pieces left on a chess board when a game is over. Derren got quite lucky, because he was only one off. Ofcourse, he would have been REALLY lucky if that player had had exactly 6 pieces left :-)
***** I don't understand why he didn't make the trick with 100% though - there was a game which finished with 6 pieces, he could just use it instead of applying the prediction "6" to the game which finished with 7 pieces.
+Artur Kirkoryan To make it more real and appearing as some kind of an imperfect skill rather than trick
The tables were numbered, he couldn't change the order as he wanted...
My guess is that Derren managed to get Graham Lee on table #1 in on the trick. And he didn't play table 1 v. table 5, he played table 5 v. table 9. So when Derren used sleight of hand opening the letter, Graham didn't protest since he was in on the trick. The mistake at the beginning serves to deflect attention away from Graham.
OK I'm sorry, after looking at the results, it couldn't have been exactly like that. But is it possible Derren somehow brought two games back to Graham--one they played on the table, and another they signaled to each other based on game #9? It's not unheard of for a master to play two games at once, especially when one of them is against the president of a chess club who is not ranked.
You can see exactly how he does the numbers trick if you pay close attention when he takes the folded up paper from the chess guy. When he takes it, he hides it behind another folded up paper, and then keeps it hidden between the paper as it is unfolded. It's sleight of hand.
That was great. The moment he said divide them into pairs I got it right away. Freaking genius.
@tassay
You’re right, but the pro’s would understand they were playing a poor game.
But I was mistaken, I understand how he did it, the players did effectivaly play between each other.
Table 1:
memorize player 1’s move
Table 5:
Play player 1’s move
Wait for player 5 to play
memorize player 5’s move
Table 1:
Play player 5’s move
Wait for player 1 to play
Got to the start.
Funny how none of the players found it normal for some games to be played with the white and some with the black pieces by Darren. Darren should be getting the white pieces in all games, per normal procedure.
hthought that wouldn't change much. There's a way to transform the boards colours backwards in your brain. Just mirror and flip then invert the colours
@@ComedyPal667
It's not about color, it's about who moves first. White always makes the first move, thus mirroring an opponent against another opponent becomes effectively impossible unless their starting order is also mirrored.
@@jessesipprell8287 riiight, thanks
I promise you they knew. They were just playing along.
Dude I love your channel, awesome that you came across the video I'm watching.
I'd still love to see an explanation for how he predicted the numbers at the end. And I don't believe him entirely about the 9th player.
thats a very nice strategy and actually im very impressed
I thought about this since this is already done in one of the Sidney Sheldon's Novel
I would find a task like this incredibly difficult catering to only 2 pairs of games. To do that with four pairs while SIMULTANEOUSLY playing a real game of chess is absolutely stunning. This man's mental capacity is mind-blowing.
just a normal guy lieing in the streets 9:37
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This chess thing was just a snippet of a longer Derren Brown episode. Thanks for the upload!
6:01 "I don't wanna touch you"
*five seconds later*
Touches arm at 6:06
"I don't wanna touch it" aka the envelope. And he doesn't either (touch the envelope that is). So all is well.
ostkartong I know nothing about magic, but some kinda weird something goes on from 6:18 - 6:21. During that time, he's actually physically holding the papers in his hand, directing how exactly how it's unfolded, etc, using the 6 (the number he got wrong) as a shield. 3 seconds seems like an eternity in the world of sleight of hand. Also, whether he's technically lying is probably completely meaningless because all of that, "As you can see, there are no mirrors," type of talk that magicians do is just a misdirection anyway. Who cares that he never touches the envelope? It seems to have successfully distracted us from the fact that he unnecessarily grasps and spins and unfolds the paper itself, even though the assistant is probably wholly capable of unfolding a piece of paper.
He secretly mirrored their moves on a different board. So basically it like the grandmasters are playing them selves.
That cringe worthy laugh at 4:29 though
5:56
"One of SEVERAL memory feats that I was indulging in"
Cheeky.
We're all adults here right? Fucking brilliant!!!
im not, im 14
Greenzy Then disregard any words that are offensive...😳😉😉
Had to re watch because the ending just blew me away for its simplicity.
Brown probably payed Chan off here.... Chans rated 1500 and that aint that bad.. to be sure to win derren would have to be around 1700+ and that while remembering all the moves on the other tables. Many players play for years without reaching 1700 + rating so Chan was likely bribed..
Andreas sUND or brainfuked in advance
Probably my favorite Derren Brown. I love proper planning and preparation and the high you get when you succeed, not the recognition you get for doing it but being recognized that you did it. You know what I mean?
this could be done better with radio micro-earphone and a computer
computers nowadays play better than top humans, so they can beat average grandmaster easily
get an assistant who would watch through hidden camera, input human moves into computer and tell magician which peace to move and you dont even need to know chess rules
Seems plausible. The only issue is that even an average chess hobbiest can tell they are playing against a computer after a dozen or so moves, let alone grandmasters.
Well, that depends on what you mean by better. It wasn't about beating people at chess most efficiently, it was about what he was able to do by memory.
David Xu then just have a grandmaster or two correcting that in the background as well
Timur Nurmagambetov The point was that he wasn't using a radio or mic.
David Xu What gives the computer away?
I figured out what he was doing as soon as I saw half the players had opposite colors, but the execution and the additional trick of "predicting" pieces left over were excellent showmanship.
This supports my theory that most TH-cam video titles are lies.
(in this one, the lie is that he beats the 9 players- obviously false to anyone who's watched the video)
#MostTH-camVideoTitlesAreLies
He beat them overall in a group. It wasn't through skill but through deceit. That still counts as a win.
Ilysanth Amaranthine The title says he beat 9 players simultaneously. That's a lie. It might count as one win but certainly not nine.
I really enjoyed this. They were actually playing each other, he was merely exhibiting a fantastic ability to remember things. As for the prediction of number of pieces left, that was his magician persona tossed in for fun. He pulled a trick on that one somehow or another, lol.
@JDoucette I think the lighting in the room is meant to keep each players attention on THEIR board.
This was very fun to watch. I want to try replicating this some day.
@carvakommie I really can't see how using statistics to predict the pieces left on each board would work. Could you explain more closely?
@woyay but how he was able to predict each games end - how many pieces would be left for each game - before they even started playing is my question. don't understand how he could do that no matter how good his memory..
WOW the explanation is brilliant
This is impossible to do the way he explained it. From what I could see he started playing as black and opened c5 against whites e4. He divided all of them into pairs, meaning that the other pair across from the "e4-c5"-table have to play exactly the same as the "e4-c5"-table. Let's say he try to copy the e4 move at the other table, and his opponent answers with for example e5, then it's suddenly a totally different game and he's screwed right from beginning.
Exactly!
HE was 1 move ahead of them all. :)
@mikeo609 what exactly did you teach us here that wasn't explained in the video already?
Sure thing In modern day chess involving games played by advanced and tournament/club players, White wins about 34.7% while black wins about 24.4% of all games. The remaining 40.9 are Drawn games. There have been many studies into this concept past and present. If it came down to one game to sway the balance of the decision for Derren in this clip, being white gave him an edge. Not a guarantee mind you, but he was aware of this without question.
Holy smokes, that is a very clever way to simultaneously play nine games of chess -- four against grandmasters -- and come out on top overall.
It's something that I now want to try, as that was just... wow. Clever.
6:17 the moment when he comes back he tug onto the paper, its at this moment he executes a good-ole-magician trick, thus making it seem like he predicted a numbers, the mirror chess setup was a very great system he discovered, that is amazing
As far as the numbers at the end, it seemed like there was some slight of have have fuckery when he had the guy show it to the room. He probably wrote it down after
This trick has been around for a long time (or so I've gathered from reading the comments), but watching it the first time it pretty funny.
This is so clever... I'm impressed, great memory
I love how he explains the obvious trick but not the one that makes you really wonder.
id love to know how you know the numbers.. since i guess im not looking into depth in that....
LOVE darren brown, wish his show was still on
Having played a lot of chess, and not being too shabby at it, I new his trick the second the cameras showed the boards alternating. I knew at some level he was just mimicking games. Brilliant trick though!
you can say whatever you want but i think this is brilliant
What does he say at the end? How he predicted number of pieces left? I've mishead that(
@Rimber6 You don't get it. He never really opened. On the boards where he was white, he played the moves his opponents on the other side of the room played before him.
lol 'i genuinely can't remember' XD way to leave us hanging!! brilliant tho. good way to look like an amazing chess player, funny how they were just playing each other. love it!
This was a clip from a TV show, that would be the next segment of the show or even an advertisement I believe.
just remembering the moves makes it amazing anyways. It was awesome and a nice little trick. Also the number of pieces left he predicted was some trick I don't think I would figure out
it takes skill to remember all those moves, and derren brown has that skill
I realised he was going to do that as soon as I saw the setup of tables.
Just need a few hours to work out how he got the number right.
"as for how i predicted the number of pieces on each board....i genuinely cant remember" win
Its important to also see that this could be done on any number of people at the same time. as long as you can remember 2 digts for each game skipped (the notation of the move)
I dont think there is a pocket trick with the number. It is 2 sided to be sure, 1 number is wrong (which happens to be the game he actually played).
Most obvious explination I can think of is by looking at end game positions of games recorded for that specific player.
I would love to hear him say "These are not the droids you are looking for."
what page? and name of the effect? this isnt a knights path is it?
If I had a billion dollars, I'd spend 100 mill to have Darren brown teach me for 3 months. The rest I'd donate to charity.
+odee There are many better teachers of Chess then Darren.
I hope you meant teach you at chess, otherwise this comment is irrelevant.
+Cellkist He just played 9 masters simultaneously and beat them all as a collective AND predicted the number of pieces left even before the game started. And its Derren..
Olivia liv It was a trick dear.
I think you're definitely right on that but still, I can't help but be thoroughly impressed. lol
Someone has an explanation how he predicted the numbers of chess pieces left on each board?
I think this only should work with decieve games. with if board 1 and 2 are paired up against eachoter. And for instand 1 offers a draw, he accepts, and 2. where he offers the draw plays on. What would happen then?
Is it ok if I post ur video up on my chess playing website
wow what an old video archive
Each pair is essentially playing each other. He is just moving the pieces for them.
At the same time, it's his turn to play on one of the boards and his opponent's turn to play in the other board. They are using different colors, he's not playing at the same color in both to allow his opponent to make different options.
@IEatCray0ns If i recall correctly I think at the beginning of the show, he was a bystander that picked up the pay phone when it rang. He past out like that, and suddenly gained consciousness later on at the end of the show.
@BillMan2002 he explains in the video, there is a pattern to each player he goes against, he just repeats another players move against another player, in other words he is a vessel for a chess match between different players.
@Bliced what is the trick? did he hypo them?
Brilliantly simple when you think about it
It's part of a TV show, and throughout the show he would call payphones and make them fall asleep. This is one of them.
@yeeeeahdroppingteam Do you have nothing to do beside post this on EVERY ONE of Derren Brown's videos?
It's not about figuring out the trick, it's about using his technics, which he also describe in his book; "Derren Brown - Tricks of the Mind". It's about memorising patterns, and how to use them.
@SilentKek It couldn't have been up his sleeve. He only touched the paper to get the optimal dramatic effect. There was no switch.
@Tweakisher no they would eventually play a different move and even if he then went to the other board and play the same move, he would possibly get a different result depending on how far into the game he was going.
@NightHawk0085 That leaves the problem of Chan responding differently than the player he is supposed to mimic, leaving an entirely different boardstate in just a few turns.
@Darth814Vader keep in mind he claims he was playing one real game of chess, but at the same time he was getting a variety of moves and ideas from grand/international masters. Also, Derren has exceptional memory (the average human can only remember 7 things at once, and he was able to remember 8 while playing a game of real chess). Derren probably has studied chess quite be on par with great players and felt confident in his playing ability.
I agree. The last guy, Robert Chan is president of king's college London, chess society, so he is the head of a club or something of the sort. So that case, you have to be looking at him being somewhere around the 1600-1800+ range ELO. Derren Brown must be somewhere around there to beat him.
I really want to know how he got that number!
Whatever move player #1 does, he will do against player #2. the reaction of player #2 he will do against player #1. Then repeat that process so basicly player #1 and #2 are playing against eachother. It doesn't matter what move they do, he will always copy it.
I figured he was doing that when I heard the comments of the players. But damn that's some impressive memory
It's cutting back to the segment where he was making people fall asleep whenever they picked up a public telephone.
Anyone else figure it out the moment you saw the room layout?
how did he predict the #? amazing
lol
"i've been studying your games for A YEAR"
then "what's your name?"
hahahah
That is just brilliant man
ever wondered what chess moves sound like
when u put musical scales on the chessboard?
I have created a sound formula for converting chess moves into sounds
Further, the masters were seated with their backs to each other.
Also the the player giving the simultaneous exhibition makes his move immediately after the player made it.
Wait... So how does he do that trick at the end? and what was that random guy doing in the video as well?
i knew it was going to be having them play each other but the numbers, thats the trick i really want to know
@NameMoon I think you're up to something there. Most magician wanted some kind of recognition of magical power that they possess after the performance they did. Otherwise, there is no point of doing these performances.
The reason he gives away the "secret" of his success is because he wants us to think that these were legitimate chess games while in fact each game was all pre-memorized by each players.
Yeah, good touch on the number "6" mistake. It makes most of us a believer.
How did he do that thing with the numbers?
Seriously are you freaking kidding me with not remembering??? That was the whole bit for me! :D
So would anyone mind explaining how he predicted those numbers please- i'd really like to know
Ben Riley He switched the paper during the unfolding/opening up of it. You can clearly see this.
I like how good they take the defeat, real nice fellahs.
Make no mistake, they did to. This is a very well known and easy to think of trick that everyone who has played a decent amount of chess would have both though about themselves or heard about.
Everyone in the room knew what was going on, the only thing I'm surprised about is that the GM's were pretty decent at pretending to be fooled.
i luv how he said
" as for how i've predicted the number of pieces left on each board i genuinely can't remember xD