Articles
Chess players and memory researchers, one profile at a time.
Magnus CarlsenWorld Chess Champion, 2013-2023
How Magnus Carlsen names a famous game from one position
Filmed tests and blindfold displays show what Magnus Carlsen's chess memory can do, and chunk research suggests it rests on studied games.
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Adriaan de GrootDutch chess master and psychologist
Adriaan de Groot's 1944 test of chess memory, by the numbers
Adriaan de Groot tested four players on chess positions shown for 2 to 15 seconds in 1944. Here are his real scores and what later research changed.
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Judit PolgárGrandmaster at 15, world number 8
How Judit Polgár played blindfold chess at age seven
Judit Polgár played chess blindfold at 7 and was a grandmaster at 15. Her blindfold results, what she says about patterns, and a drill to try.
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How these articles are made
Each article follows one chess player or researcher and one question about their memory. The subject may be a player known for a feat of recall, or a researcher who measured what players remember after a few seconds.
Every article has the same parts. A portrait comes with its photographer and licence. A fact file gives the dates, the titles and the memory feat the person is known for. The story sets that feat beside the research that explains it. A source list shows where each claim comes from. A drill at the end opens a round of Memory Chess with the piece count and viewing time the story suggests.
The articles are researched and drafted with AI assistance from published sources such as interviews, tournament reports, books and research papers. A separate check then compares every date, number and quotation with those sources before anything is published. Where sources disagree, the article says who reported what. An anecdote that sources report only as a story is told as a story. Articles in other languages are translated from the English text with AI assistance, and each translation is checked before it goes up.
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