Russian Scientific Documentary about the Super Brain of Chess Queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk
We were able to get hold of the 27-minute Russian scientific documentary produced for the Russian TV channel “Russia 2” last month and called “Супер Мозг” = “Super Brain”. The game of chess is used to show how the brain works. The video features 12th Women’s World Chess Champion and Chess Queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk, who goes through several scientific experiments, including a brain tomography while solving a chess problem. Experiments are also conducted with male GM Alexander Riazantsev to see if there are any differences between men’s and women’s brains. There are differences. The video is in Russian, note that you can use the “subtitles” feature of YouTube, it’s wonderful, the subtitles are translated on the fly, mouse over the arrow in the bottom right of the player and then choose the CC option to see the captions menu. Once you do, you will see the default language and the ability to “translated” the captions. Once you click on “translate,” you will be able to choose from 35 different languages.
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Superb video. It is interesting that men and women solve the same chess problems but different parts of their brains light up as shown in the docu – very interesting. i also liked the part where Alexandra is able to remember exact when the chessboard is laid like a game but not when it is random that really shows that chess thinking is so organised. amazing documentary i would say and of course they got the best STAR to feature 😉