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What I don’t understand is that Hikaru can visualise in his head 30+ moves ahead from both plays, and yet he’s not better than Magnus?




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I'm all for having a Hikaru/Magnus discussion--one of my favourite topics--but this just doesn't make sense


What I was trying to say was that Hikaru can essentially predict the future given he has stockfish running in his head, while I don’t think Magnus has that ability, yet Hikaru is ranked lower

Magnus is widely regarded, including by Hikaru, as having the best chess intuition (i.e. subconscious understanding) of any player alive, by some distance. the times he's beaten are almost always when he's out-calculated on a very deep line that he had intuitively disregarded. at the same time though, Hikaru himself is also far better known for his intuition than his conscious calculation, explaining his much stronger performances in faster time controls. if you want a player that's more calculative and, ergo, more like stockfish or another traditional engine, perhaps look at Gukesh, who almost exclusively plays classical for that reason



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