Magnus playing TIMED blindfold 3 game simul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmXwdoRG43U

he won all 3 games

(although his last move was a blunder it seems) 

24:07 board 2 E6...leaves his queen unprotective

but he still won all games, impressive

pretty impressive

What I found most impressive was that he didn't get confused since challengers didn't move in order as in a simul. Especially in the beginning stages of the game.  But his opponents played pretty badly, except for board 2. 

Hm, I don't see where is the unprotected queen.

after black captures the e pawn...magnus can't capture back with the d pawn because black queen will take white queen

Oh, I see, you mean the queen... But I guess he'd play d6.

so magnus was still winning that game then?

lets ask anyone else..did magnus blunder at 24:07?

As impressive as this is even more impressive is he claims that he can play back 10,000 games in the past from memory.  Does anyone who laughs at "talent" want to defend the idea that anyone who "works hard" can achieve what Magnus has?

Edit:  In another interview he qualified it by saying that even though he may not remember every single move he can remember the positions in those games and draw from them.  Still impressive.

question

at 7:00 in the video magnus says board 3 C4..yet the guy moves c4 for board 2

yet magnus was still able to realize the mistake on board 2 and knew to take back with the c4 pawn

how the hell did he know about the mess up?

He even doesnt have to play d6, he just sacrified pawn to open position for his rook, probably Rd1 would be good

Wow, you have a sharp eye/ear.  

I put the position in a (weak) engine and it says best move for white was g4 (~+2) and after e6 it drops to around 0. So it was indeed a blunder. After fxe6 best move was d6 (~+0.3).

Nothing particularly impressive about this at all.

He had three minutes for every game and moves didn't come in order. 

Still, much greater blindfold feats have been accomplished. Compared to me, it's impressive; compared to history, not as much.

batgirl it seems like you hate magnus or something or your not a fan of him

do you recognize him as the best player in the world?

I like Magnus Carlsen.  I think he has a good personality, seems fearless and he may become the greatest player ever.  At this point he's the strongest player in the world. 

batgirl, sorry i didn't mean to put you on the spot..maybe i was thinking of someone else, actually yeah my bad

Still an impressive feat. I think the moves coming back in random order made it a much more difficult exercise than a traditional blindfold simul. Board 2 was pretty good too.