Derren Brown beats 9 chess players simultaneously.

This is a video cut from "Trick of The Mind" series aired in the UK. The clip here is taken directly from Season 1 -- Episode 1.

This is one of my favorite segments done by Derren. It explains for the most part how he did achieve the feat, and the trick is quite clever. Don't get too hung up on the ending though; it's merely a trick.

I've got all of Derren's work on my computer, and if you're interested in somehow obtaining the information, email me at tranceriver@gmail.com and we'll talk.

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[SPAMUGO]

What?! He beat an Asian?!

[Larry Mingrone]

Did you watch the video? Your sentence and grammar is very poor. I doubt you're a top chess player. Most I've known can at least form a paragraph. If you watch the video you'd know the GMs were playing against each other...not Darren. That's kind of the point to the video.

[drahtseilakt]

If you watch closely at 6:14 you'll see that they switch the notes. The thing with the envelope is just a trick to distract the viewers from what's really happening.

[wangchungman14]

that is the big trick....to the players they have no idea this is happening so to them all that happened was he straight up beat a couple of GM which to an average (even considered good) is near impossible if not completely impossible

[Danny P]

U fuking numbskull! HE BEAT 9 MASTER CHESS PLAYERS! PREDICTED HE"D WIN, AND PREDICTED BY HOW MANY PIECES TOTAL! THATS THE FUCKING TRICK YOU FUCKING INTERNET DUMBY!!!!

[Danny P]

Derren is, a god. That is the ONLY explanation for the things he does. He is obviously super human in mind. Maybe something truly unique not seen before in human evolution perhaps?

[kim martin]

This is so fake....

[Xendrius]

Hahaha hahah "skills that i've learned". No Derren you got a demon spirit following you and telling you what to do.

[ein Sido]

i would say its the hardest trick. Maybe...

the error with the 6 is the key. the numbers he wrote are so lined up that he can move the error around that it fits in the end with only 1 error and u still have a lot of "wow" effect.

[CrappyQualityWarfare]

It's funny how he says he'd been studying them for a year but have to ask for his name. Small mistake could potentially ruin these kind of things.

[hunterxhunte]

he made them playing against each other , for exemple ''' he memorise the first move of a grandmaster and he made this move against the other player'' , get it yet ??

[MexHexful]

He just counted and memorized the pieces i don't get what's the big trick.