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.
Tags: Alexandra Kosteniuk, Chess Queen Alexandra, YouTube
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I do not understand russian but I have some comments:
1)Difference between one man and one woman does not prove difference between men’s and women’s brains and it is possible that you could get similiar results if you test 2 men or 2 women.
2)I do not understand what are the differences in the video because I do not understand russian.
Maybe it is possible to understand something without understanding russian(but it is boring to try to watch something in russian only because maybe I can understand
something).
3)I do not understand comment number 13.
” For those who don’t understand English just turn on the captions on the Youtube video – the first icon at the bottom of the screen – and you can enjoy the video by understanding most of it until the official translation arrives.”
Is it for people who do not understand russian?
Is there some official translation to english in the video?