Beating Magnus after a month of training: the neuroscience of why learning chess is so much harder than learning a language
By now, most of the chess world is familiar with the story of Max Deutsch, so I will keep it brief. Max is a 24-year-old chess amateur who wanted to beat World Champion Magnus Carlsen with a month’s worth of learning chess. No handicaps. Max completed 11 other learning challenges, one each month. Perhaps the most impressive […]