On 10 September 2022, I published a post on my website with the humorous title 2033: The Secret of the Best First Move Revealed! Neural networks, artificial intelligence and quantum computers unanimously declare: 1.h2-h4! Now, please watch a video of a game in which Black performed exceptionally poorly, which I selected from among many other mostly laudatory videos about the former world champion.
Execution after 1.h4!
Chess.com (owned by Magnus Carlsen), Titlet Tuesday, 7 November 2023, blitz online, time control 3 minutes + 1 second per game, round 6:
In the first minute of the video after 1.h4, the streamer, in my eyes—excuse me dear readers—rather a clown, informs us that Magnus with his opening move „poses serious psychological problems for his opponent“! Yes, and if someone destroyed your first sandcastle at age 3, serious psychological problems might haunt you for life… 🙂
Carlsen wins ‚Chess Tuesday‘ and the October Qatar debacle is forgotten! Even some chess players, intelligent people, have truly gone mad?
On the other hand, it is said that only geniuses can think a decade or more ahead: Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking… Whether the former world champion has just done this I leave to the judgement of the esteemed reader.
