Derren Brown takes on 9 chess players simultaneously

Derren Brown plays 9 chess players, some grandmasters, and plays them all at once and even beats a few of them, when really he can hardly play chess at all.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• chess
• derren
• brown
• fakeout
• psyche

[gobleugirl]

The video is synched extremely poorly to the audio. Distracting. The concept is pretty awesome, though.

[DeadJerker]

The video is out of sync with the audio. ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGJHHHHHHHH

[LanceDirk]

AAaaaaaahhhhh I can't believe I didn't see how he did it, it's so obvious. The giveaways should have been that he never intended to win every game, and that he had some of them starting as black and some as white.

[Makron5]

It looks like Brown is playing a series of Bond Villains.

[adrianeaglrck]

moral decay and schizophrenic dream states with unsound ideals, he believes he is a top notch hypnotist but he's a sick blundering retard...he sucks at what he does you want to see hypnotic coercion and lying scams at their best....well just watch fox news, or cnn or barrack obama for a couple of minutes

[MattBronsil]

He wrote the thing on the big board and remembered them. The thing in the envelope was probably written down as well and handed to him. When he walked up to reveal it, he revealed that piece of paper rather than the other one.

[disfirer]

oh, that case, I guess Brown just altered the way it usually worked. I have never played with masters so I don't know the convention.

But since this is a special even for the masters, I guess they won't mind :)

[Harlequin1707]

The problem is that the player is not obliged to make his move immediately. I have played in chess simuls before and the convention is for players to wait until the master returns to his board before moving.

The only way this can work is for Brown to alter the way the simuls usually run and he will be obliged to skip making moves a lot so he can move round to see what move the opponent has played. It would seem very wierd to experienced players.

[disfirer]

dude, he goes to table 1 for an opening and does not respond. He the goes to table 2, 3 & 4 for the same thing. At table 5 he plays white so he mirrors the opening from table 1. He waits for table 5's response and remember that. He then does that with table 6, 7 & 8. Back to table 1 he mirrors the response from table 5 and wait for the response. It's Derren who doesn't respond each time, not the players. As for table 9, unless Derren is really good at chess, I think there's some tricks going on.

[AlphaFalconX]

He didn't. He stopped the game there. When his opponent had the number he wrote.