Summary
The new memorisers on the horizon in the international mental sport of memory competition are no longer the hitherto dominant middle-aged white males (Mawm) but early teenage girls: the memory equivalent of the chessplaying Polgar sisters. At 14, Astride Plessl of Austria carried away the silver medal in the most recent world memory championship, with gold going to Britain's Andi Bell, still upholding the banner of the Mawm.
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Thanks for the Memories
How useful is memory in chess? Some great masters, such as Capablanca or Karpov, have relied little on memory, preferring to employ standard openings with few surprises possible to alarm either side and resorting to their stra...
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