Rich Hutnik wrote:
Offramp wrote:
I think it means that Brown is not a bad chess player; the prez
can't be a complete jobbernowl at chess, can he? The method used
is the same as that used in the old fable about a man drawing at
correspondence chess playing Alekhine/Lasker and Capablanca.

Also, he revealed it, so it must be something known at least in
chess circles.

It's very well known to chess players, yes -- see the ChessBase
article I referenced elsewhere in the thread.

He still had to play one game.

Yes -- I'm not sure what he did, there.

The real trick here anyhow, was him predicting the number of pieces
that would be left by all his opponents. Note that he didn't reveal
how that was done.

One of the other links I posted was an account by Graham Lee, the
holder of the envelope. He was convinced that it had been switched
and identified the point at which it happened. Distract and switch is
the usual method by which envelopes held by people turn out to contain
exactly what the illusionist needs.


Dave.

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