Magnus Carlsen’s Mind-Blowing Memory of Historic Chess Matches

How countless historic chess recreations can Magnus Carlsen acknowledge precisely by looking at the placement of chess patches on members of the board? It turns out a lot. And that’s partly what determines him the predominating World Chess Champion.

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