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Viswanathan Anand playing a world championship match in 2012. He lauds The Queen's Gambit mini-series as brilliant and says it is "totally unremarkable" for good players to visualise moves in their heads.
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Footballers see spaces before they open. Divers visualise their aerial art before they launch themselves. In the head of athletes, beautiful things are constructed. Like in The Queen's Gambit, the hit Netflix mini-series where Beth Harmon looks at the ceiling and plots her way through a game on an imaginary upside-down board.
Fantastic, huh? No, actually rather basic for chess players.
