Magnus Carlsen plays 5 players, blindfold, simultaneous, 12 minutes each. The opponents are 'beginners'. A lot went wrong. Any thoughts are welcome.
Magnus "it was an experiment".
Magnus Carlsen blindfold clock simul, October 6th 2015
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Looks like his first opponent played blindfold as well...
Oct 7, 2015
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Jenium wrote:
Looks like his first opponent played blindfold as well...
Yip 
. Just some businessmen probably. A bit of a waste to have Magnus play them if you ask me.
I know the games are nonsense. Just added them for 'completeness'. It's more about the video really and all the things that went wrong.
Game 1, black wins on time, but doesn't claim it.
Oct 7, 2015
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At least the opponents 2+5 were no beginners. The both played something that looks remotely like chess. 
Oct 8, 2015
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Winnie_Pooh wrote:
At least the opponents 2+5 were no beginners. The both played something that looks remotely like chess.
For some more serious blindfold games.
Oct 8, 2015
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Apart from the level (no level, really) of the games, the format and the organisational blunders, it's fun to 'play the video, close your eyes and see how long YOU can keep up with the games'.
Yes yes. And on a unrelated note, chessbrah Eric Hansen played blindfolded bullet tournament up to 10 seconds remaining and finished 4th. Cant post a link. :(
I'm on mobile and Twitch doesn't seem to provide the right link. Should have tried with the computer, just a sec.
Here you go. Eric is blindfolded. Aman (Hambleton) is transmitting the moves.
http://www.twitch.tv/chessbrah/v/19369056
This is awesome. 
Oct 8, 2015
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MSC157 wrote:
Here you go. Eric is blindfolded. Aman (Hambleton) is transmitting the moves.
http://www.twitch.tv/chessbrah/v/19369056
This is awesome.
Not bad at all, thx.
tag for interests.
This is sheering cheating.
Carsel was not immediately informed of the moves.Only after a few seconds, the moves were informed and also it's impossible to spell more than one move at a time.
So such timing is simply utter nonsense or foolishness.
Magnus Carsen must be aware of such cunning ways to defeat him.
Since it was an experiment, not much to comment on.
Anyhow these are my utterances.
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