just curious-did anyone see darren brown on sci-fi simultaneously play 9 grandmasters with a result of 4 wins, 3 losses and 2 draws? he explained at the end how he memorized the white moves(the grandmasters played)and duplicated them for the boards he was playing white on and vice versa for the black side. is this just tv gimmickry or could someone simply(not really that simple)memorize good moves and duplicate them on another board? curious in mass and en masse-any ideas? doctor-ice

If I understand correctly, he just made them play against each other basically?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evZmpsl3jI0

oldest trick in the book

Realy?

 

Yeah, I saw him do this trick. They weren't all GM's, though. I think they ranged from GM down to "good club player."

The best thing about it was that he'd selected 9 players of various abilities, planning on playing the weakest for real, and hoping to get a draw, thereby being sure of getting 4.5/9. He ended up beating him, so he got 5/9 instead. Impressive, but easy enough to work out how he was doing it before he revealed his "secret."

Probably not gonna make any friends with this post - but i love the way people state what Darren did as "easy" and "oldest trick in the book". If it was that easy and obvious how come it made mainstream Tv, and why are the people making said statements not household names themselves.

Darren is an illusionist, and by the very nature of all trickery - it's easy when you know how - but when you combine this one trick with the multitude of other mind games he is clearly a master of..... easy is the last word that springs to my mind!

Big up the Darren Brown Posse!!

For my part, archerfish123, I must say that I wasn't trying to demean what Mr (It's Derren, not Darren, I think) Brown did. As I said, it was impressive, as is most of his stuff. His best ability is combining different skills (such as memory, suggestion, distraction) to confuse those he works with. Clever stuff, no doubt.

That's cool, hope I didn't come across as too narky - as I didn't mean to be!!
Regards
Mark

No problem, Mark. I just wanted to make sure I hadn't been misunderstood.

CB3K

What about the bit at the end where he predicts how many pieces are left on the board of each game? How do you explain that, all those who said things like "oldest trick in the book"?

Lord-Svenstikov wrote: What about the bit at the end where he predicts how many pieces are left on the board of each game? How do you explain that, all those who said things like "oldest trick in the book"?

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yeah-he didn't explain or show the "trick" for having the number of pieces left on his opponent's board. i give him full credit for being a student of human psychology and learning all these "tricks". maybe i am easily impressed?/maybe not!