"He often calculates 20 moves ahead and can comfortably play several games simultaneously while blindfolded simply by hearing each move in notation. The fear surrounding any such beautiful mind is that a life spent probing the edges of the infinite - the possible permutations of a chess game outnumber the estimated number of atomos in the universe - will eventually lead to madness."
A Bold Opening
by Eben Harrell
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1950683,00.html
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