Blind Date in Barcelona with Carlsen, the World Chess King

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While in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, the Tata Steel Chess is being played, for the less knowledgeable, something like the Wimbledon of chess, the first two of the world ranking, Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, travel to Barcelona to play a blind game, a format as demanding as it is uncommon among elite players in which they must mentally reconstruct each position. An extreme exercise of memory and calculus.Continue reading...