In the clip, Magnus was playing a 10 person simul without looking at one point, and hes memorized about 10,000 chess games. Special skills like blindfolded chess and memorization are common among the elite players. Theyre also trainable, the Russian School is famous for developing techniques and drills to train them. I know about Carol Dwecks work on pedagogy--growth oriented vs essentialist learners, but people like Paul Morphy, Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen--all childhood prodigies, but also renowned for their ferocious capacity for work and study. To be the very best, it seems to me, requires the confluence of the genetic and epigenetic, both the essentialist and the growth oriented styles of learning. Somehow some little essentialists, with their inborn talents, overcome the common problem with that type of personality--being crushed by every setback, every loss a blow to their identity--to become growth oriented types--every loss spurring them to work even harder to recover their egos. https://youtube/watch?v=PZFS0kewLRQ
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:58:51 +0000