171: The easiest person to fool is yourself (with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris)
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The Learning Effect of Chess in the Pandemic
In-person tournaments are much better controlled than online play, because anything can happen in your house. There's never a bin man outside your door banging the cans together. The neighbors not playing drill music. It's actually much better controlled. And there was this weird learning effect that happened as well. One of them is named Ken Regan and an international master of chess. He said he could not find any evidence of cheating. But it almost, and official investigations have not finished yet,. perhaps because Hans Neiman is suing Magnus Carlson.
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