Why does Magnus always look slightly hungover, slightly pissed off, and slighty have a ‘I don’t want to be here’ attitude…

I like how he subtly hints at things that say these aren't really chess problems, but mental ones, chess knowledge helps but for all of them the rules of the piece with zero knowledge of chess would be enough to solve them

I did the 8 queens puzzle when I was a child. the challenge for us twas to get all the 92 patterns. Worked on it for weeks. Literally everyday after school I sat in front of the chess board and did that. I don't remember now how many patterns I got, but it was like 2 pages of my notebook. When I learned how to code, this was one of the first program I wrote to find all the 92 solutions to this.

0:16 bro not again 💀

This guy is good at these puzzles he should try actual chess

@5:46 Magnus is like "Where is the King?" Because in his mind he was envisioning an all board checkmate.

Magnus, Kasparov, and Fischer all have this amazing fluidity when they handle the pieces, just sliding them like it’s an afterthought and they’ve already placed everything in their head. I remember some quote about Fischer playing blitz, someone said he seemed to crudely throw the pieces like he didn’t even care… but they always landed right in the center of each square, and of course ended up in the best place to win the game :)

Please can you make a more "calm and relaxed" video so we can enjoy the thinking process and other things

Sometimes magnus can exhibit some unfortunate sides of his personality. But I absolutely love how he doesn't seem to care the least bit about "looking good" or trying to save face or anything. He takes puzzles as a challenge, just wants to solve them, and isn't happy with himself if he doesn't solve it properly. It's so nice to see someone so public, be so authentic.

That is impressive. I’d still be on the first one, lmao.

The last one, also known as the 8-queens puzzle, is commonly studied in AI classes. We once solved this problem through coding.

Amazing video, As a kid my coach used to make me do these and i agree with magnus how its more of iq thing then chess at 3:16 and how i solved all puzzles much faster then Magnus cause i used to do these as kids even tho i am nowhere close to him in term of chess.

He made a good point. This really isn’t a chess challenge, it’s just an IQ test

Magnus looks like " David you gonna pay for  bothering me with all that!"

0:16 smash

I appreciate how you guys keep coming up with dumb (I say with love) stuff that's super entertaining, and Magnus is always game to be part of it and David is always there to keep things fun (and poking Magnus for the lols). Please keep making more of stuff like this, and David, please recommend they bring back electric shock chess, it's too dumb to ignore

5:41 This is actually beautiful

5:32 the shadow on his face makes it look like he grew a beard, which just makes it so funny 🤣🤣

That queen one was actually quite easy if you worked your way back rather than thinking through it from the start. You immediately remove 4 of the pawns, meaning you only need to compute the proper capture order of some 6 pawns

2:03 "the rook" should've been said by levy