David Richerby wrote:
Guy Macon http://www.guymacon.com/ wrote:
Did Derren Brown -- a professional illusionist / magician --
actually insist that "no other trickery was involved?" I find that
hard to believe.

He claims that he's `dishonest but honest about his dishonesty', i.e.,
that he cheats like a Professor of Cheating from Cheating College,
Oxford, but that he admits to it afterwards. My guess is that this is
just a further trick to get the audience to trust him.

Sounds like a politician to me!

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Nick Cramer wrote:

David Richerby wrote:

Guy Macon http://www.guymacon.com/ wrote:

Did Derren Brown -- a professional illusionist / magician --
actually insist that "no other trickery was involved?" I find that
hard to believe.

He claims that he's `dishonest but honest about his dishonesty', i.e.,
that he cheats like a Professor of Cheating from Cheating College,
Oxford, but that he admits to it afterwards. My guess is that this is
just a further trick to get the audience to trust him.

Sounds like a politician to me!

Not really. A politician never admits anything unless he has
already been exposed. The description sounds like a magician
to me.

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"Rich Hutnik" wrote in message
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On Oct 29, 10:01 am, Offramp wrote:
On Oct 29, 11:24 am, David Richerby
wrote:

Rich Hutnik wrote:
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=XaODx-alm4k

Derron Brown, poor chess player, beats 9 chess masters.

No he doesn't. The ninth player is the president of a university
chess club. From his position, one imagines that he must be a very
strong player but, in fact, that doesn't follow -- it just means that
he's a student who's enthusiastic about chess.

I'll not say anything about the rest of it as I don't want to give
spoilers to anyone who hasn't seen this before.

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. He still had to play one game. 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.

- Rich

The predication is the only trick here, one that can be done no doubt by any
illusionist, and one that has nothing at all to do with chess. The chess
"track," as has been noted, is old hat to veteran chess players. Most
disappointing, alas, but thank you for posting.
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