Read my post again. I said there are exceptions, but most GM weren't born with that talent. Beth Harmon is fiction. Not everybody is Morphy and Capablanca. Obviously some people learn it easier than others, as everything else in life, but if you take the top 1000 GMs today and could go back in time the to first time they encountered a chessboard and learned chess I guarantee you won't find 3 who could play blindfold or remember a given set position after looking at it for 3 seconds
what do chess masters see when they look at the board that we don't see?
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All, I repeat all of the top 20 elite GM’s were born with exceptional memory talents. Natural talents that go far beyond us mortals. Face reality. From #1 Carlsen to #20 Topalov - they all were extremely talented at very early ages - including an highly advanced memory for chess patterns (similar to math and music prodigies).
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They did a study years ago. They took some GM and IM chess players and set up positions form games, tactics, etc. and gave them a certain amount of time, and then asked them to recreate the positions. They were all able to at a very high degree of success. Then they set up purely random positions, and asked them to recreate them. They were not able to. Again, chess is about pattern recognition.
Elite chess players/ prodigies are born with natural talents that provides them with a great advantage over those who rely solely on hard work and study. A hard pill to swallow for those who think - they too can be a top GM through nothing but study and hours of hard work. That road is long and arduous. Natural talent greatly shortcuts the process. Enthusiasm and passion for the game comes easily.