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Why We Get Fooled

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Greatest Chess Player of All Time

I thought you were gonna say Bobby Fisher. We understand chess so much better now than we did 50 years ago. And it's just that the present day top players are better at chess than Bobby Fisher was. I think also people have a bias to think that people who are good at chess are probably autistic, which I don't know that there's any actual data on that. A little bit like this meme about madness and genius being so close. There's there's anecdotes, but probably not a lot of data.

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