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#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Can Drinking Improve Your Chess Performance?

I think it's just confidence. Think of your playing blitz, you're mostly playing on short calculation and intuition. And I think those are probably enhanced if you've had a little bit of a little bit to drink. What about you have been known to on a rare occasion play drunk? Is there a mathematical formula for sort of on the x axis, how many drinks you had and then the y axis, your performance slash creativity? is there like an optimal for one of the world championship that people would be required to drink?

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