I think there are some 3-cushion players who would remember critical hard shots from particular games. Maybe it would be the same for 9 ball. For both, individual positions are nearly always pretty close to a dozen other layouts they have already played.
I'd almost like to try it. I think we could use the actual video footage. Take a screenshot when neither player is in the frame, and edit out the scoreboard, etc. Crop the picture to only show the table up to the rails, so as not to give away any background that might clue the player where it was.
Maybe a sensory overload as way more games of pool get played then chess?
Gives me a flashback to a 3 rail kick to win a Doubles game. My opponent had ball in hand in 8 ball with an open table. He was So Smug when he played safe and hooked me on our one remaining ball. The 3 rail kick fell right into my daily fitness wheelhouse.
Chess board is like a spread sheet puzzle where the modifications occur in a specific sequence. Pool not so much I think.
table layouts not really matter in pool. Patterns are different. To be able to choose best shot to current position is pool pattern that best players have. Also judging right cut angle is pattern. Aiming picture in their mind.
But The Point was mine. So second behind Jim Ward is O K.
. The intimate control of whitey can be attained most red dilly, looking at the point of the strike to whitey. The focus is on the path of the tip through whitey starting at that point. Building the shot backwards from final rest of all involved balls to the cueball.
Go figure.It’s real, but I think Magnus’s memory is a bit of an abnormality even among top chess players in the world. I don’t think most grandmasters can do this, and I think that is a fairer comparison to most top pool players.
The physical performance after solving the equation separates pool from chess. When I am playing my best I am devoting every available brain cell to the execution. At the handshake, I only can recall the last shot. Even at that I had to look to confirm when my opponent said, "you shot that left handed." The decision making requires a floodlight view of the situation. Execution requires a Lazer focus on the impact to the cueball.
Maybe. But he got the games right after 3-4 moves. I'm a total banger at chess, but don't they have a few standard openings?.... So that the opening sequences from game to game would be more likely to be similar or the same until the middle game is on? If so, that means a ton of chess games would look exactly the same through the first few moves.
Here is the original video with Magnus. The comments discuss this a little. That opening has been played tens of thousands of times. Probably he guessed because the game was notable for some other reason.
