@matrix@matrix There's so much wrong with Tate's statement. First of all, chess players usually measure game length with turns, rather than moves. A turn has both black's and white's moves, so 21 moves would be whites move on turn 11, not at all deep into a game. I don't know wither me means this or if he means 21 of his moves, turn 21.
I can and have played entire chess games blindfolded. Blindfolded chess is common as a way to gimp yourself when playing weaker opponents, to show off for exhibitions, and as a variant of the game in and of itself. It's not actually that hard. Keeping track of the position doesn't get harder based on how long the game goes on, but by how much you calculate. The more you calculate, the more likely you are to forget or mistake the board position you have in your head. Obviously you choose how deep to go on your calculations, but the need to calculate is influenced by the game state. More open positions tend to have more potential tactics to consider, but not always. How complicated the game is fluctuates, it doesn't simply get harder the more you go on.
The only other way to interpret his statement is that he can calculate 21 moves (though calculating by it's nature involves thinking about only a few reasonable moves) This interpretation is absurd both on it's face and as an interpretation of his statement. 21 moves is a normal depths for chess ENGINES to calculate, using the perfect memory and raw speed provided by a computer. And you really have to stretch to get that out of what he said. "Play chess" suggests starting at the beginning, which is one of the few cases where learning 21 moves is reasonable. Memorizing theoretical openings is very common and can go insanely deep. though 21 moves is really pushing it, more often it's multiple variations that would get out of theory way earlier. So he could just be bragging about learning one opening line. If he did he might get the fully 21 move sequence once or twice in a lifetime of playing chess seriously, which I don't believe he does.
So either he is a liar who doesn't know what he's lying about (obviously it's this one), he's really bad at blind chess, he has computer level raw intellect, or he spent an evening committing one opening variation to heart.
There's so much wrong with Tate's statement. First of all, chess players usually measure game length with turns, rather than moves. A turn has both black's and white's moves, so 21 moves would be whites move on turn 11, not at all deep into a game. I don't know wither me means this or if he means 21 of his moves, turn 21.
I can and have played entire chess games blindfolded. Blindfolded chess is common as a way to gimp yourself when playing weaker opponents, to show off for exhibitions, and as a variant of the game in and of itself. It's not actually that hard. Keeping track of the position doesn't get harder based on how long the game goes on, but by how much you calculate. The more you calculate, the more likely you are to forget or mistake the board position you have in your head. Obviously you choose how deep to go on your calculations, but the need to calculate is influenced by the game state. More open positions tend to have more potential tactics to consider, but not always. How complicated the game is fluctuates, it doesn't simply get harder the more you go on.
The only other way to interpret his statement is that he can calculate 21 moves (though calculating by it's nature involves thinking about only a few reasonable moves) This interpretation is absurd both on it's face and as an interpretation of his statement. 21 moves is a normal depths for chess ENGINES to calculate, using the perfect memory and raw speed provided by a computer. And you really have to stretch to get that out of what he said. "Play chess" suggests starting at the beginning, which is one of the few cases where learning 21 moves is reasonable. Memorizing theoretical openings is very common and can go insanely deep. though 21 moves is really pushing it, more often it's multiple variations that would get out of theory way earlier. So he could just be bragging about learning one opening line. If he did he might get the fully 21 move sequence once or twice in a lifetime of playing chess seriously, which I don't believe he does.
So either he is a liar who doesn't know what he's lying about (obviously it's this one), he's really bad at blind chess, he has computer level raw intellect, or he spent an evening committing one opening variation to heart.