11-12-2013, 12:03 PM
Did anyone see Derren Brown last night on The Music channel on freeview (not sure why he is on that channel, but he is). Fantastic stuff as always.
He played a simul against 9 masters. He won 4, lost 3, and drew 2. So he won with a 5½ - 4 score. Two of his wins were against GM's. He used a really complicated system to partly achieve this. He was dividing the boards into pairs, and using his opponents moves on one board, to mirror the moves on another board, so his opponents were sort of playing themselves. And he just played his own chess on the odd board left where he beat a FM. He must know his Chess?
I am still confused as to how he won the games with the system he deployed and explained afterwards. How was he able to mirror the moves with such confidence that the same patterns of exact play would occur to a far enough point in the games?
He played a simul against 9 masters. He won 4, lost 3, and drew 2. So he won with a 5½ - 4 score. Two of his wins were against GM's. He used a really complicated system to partly achieve this. He was dividing the boards into pairs, and using his opponents moves on one board, to mirror the moves on another board, so his opponents were sort of playing themselves. And he just played his own chess on the odd board left where he beat a FM. He must know his Chess?
I am still confused as to how he won the games with the system he deployed and explained afterwards. How was he able to mirror the moves with such confidence that the same patterns of exact play would occur to a far enough point in the games?