Chess legend Magnus Carlsen recreates 26-piece position after looking at board for just two seconds

Not only did Magnus Carlsen recreate the 26-piece position perfectly after looking at the board from a game that was played nearly 70 years ago, he also played the next set of moves that were nearly identical to how it panned out in the original game.

Magnus Carlsen isn’t just the world’s top-ranked chess player at present, he is also widely considered among the greatest to have ever played the sport, alongside Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Bobby Fischer and Viswanathan Anand among others. Some even consider him to be the greatest of all time.

It’s not just Carlsen’s chess skills that are incredible though. The Norwegian Grandmaster recently highlighted his exceptional memory by recreating 26-piece position after glancing at a chess board for a mere two seconds.

In a video posted by chess app Take Take Take that Carlsen is a co-founder of, the 34-year-old was given various memory tests by British Grandmaster and commentator David Howell with time limits ranging from two seconds to a minute, all of which had 26 pieces on the board.

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