Anand's Accenture talk: decision-making

If you want to know how a World Champion makes decisions, prepares for play, uses the computer, and balances reason with emotion, then you should carve out 44 minutes to watch this low-key lecture.

It's a metaphor

No Harry Potter, no Kronsteen, no Knight playing Death, but 101 checkmates in film.

Of the actors pictured, Bogart was one of the strongest chess players in real life. (Peter Falk, who didn't make the cut, was no patzer, either.)

Parental advisory: at least two instances of profanity and one (bloodless) murder.



Via ChessVibes.

"An Evening with Magnus Carlsen"

Interview at Business Insider.

You'll find the following video there, too.

Grandmaster of Rock Paper Scissors

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Liz Garbus's Fischer documentary on YouTube

Here's an embedded link to the BBC 4 documentary Genius and Madman (released in the USA by HBO as Bobby Fischer Against the World).

Essential viewing!

Capablanca shoulda been a physicist

From Wikipedia: "According to Capablanca, he learned the rules of the game at the age of four by watching his father play, pointed out an illegal move by his father, and then beat his father twice."