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Saturday, October 27, 2007
How To Cheat at Chess
In this video Derren Brown plays chess against grandmasters and comes out on top. Then he shows you how he pulled it off. If you're not familiar with Brown, he's a UK illusionist of sorts who uses social hacks other theatrical tricks to pull off interesting feats. So he's kinda like Criss Angel, but not a retard. Actually he's more like the brilliant Ricky Jay, who uses masterful story telling as diversion.
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3 comments:
Wow, chess war by proxy! (x4)
Based on my Redhotpawn record I probably should be using this technique.
Slick. My own personal favorite skeptic is James Randi, but that was great.
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