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(Message started by: omar on Feb 22^nd, 2012, 11:53am)

Title: Magnus on 60 minutes
Post by omar on Feb 22^nd, 2012, 11:53am

Very nice segment on 60 minutes about Magnus Carlson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc_v9mTfhC8

I guess the top level chess players have quite a different mind. They are basically hardwired to play chess.

I hope someday we have this kind of talent playing Arimaa. Such a person might be able to reach and maintain a 3000+ WHRE rating.

Title: Re: Magnus on 60 minutes
Post by ginrunner on Feb 22^nd, 2012, 6:57pm

wow ... this makes me feel lazy and incompetent. Quite an amazing person.

Title: Re: Magnus on 60 minutes
Post by mistre on Feb 23^rd, 2012, 8:07am

Amazing! Maybe when he gets bored with Chess, someone can introduce him to Arimaa.

Title: Re: Magnus on 60 minutes
Post by rbarreira on Feb 23^rd, 2012, 8:19am

Nice video. I also liked Bobby Fischer's interview, his nonchalant arrogance is very amusing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uniN-ungh2w

Title: Re: Magnus on 60 minutes
Post by omar on Feb 24^th, 2012, 6:20pm

on 02/23/12 at 08:07:19, mistre wrote:

Amazing! Maybe when he gets bored with Chess, someone can introduce him to Arimaa.

I don't think he will ever get board of chess. I think chess is way beyond the limits of human mental capacity. Manus will be lucky if he ever hits a rating of 3000. But computers have started to push beyond that. So we know there is still a lot left for humans to learn about chess.

Also I think top chess players have invested so much in chess that they just are not very interested in other games. Unless of course there is huge prize money involved; which is what attracts them to poker.

I think our 3000+ Arimaa player is either already among us or is probably a youngster who hasn't heard of Arimaa yet.

Title: Re: Magnus on 60 minutes
Post by Eltripas on Feb 24^th, 2012, 6:49pm

on 02/24/12 at 18:20:22, omar wrote:

I don't think he will ever get board of chess.

I think he must own at least one, he may won't ever get a board of Arimaa though.

Yes, I know I'm a jerk, I'm sorry.