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@prerat

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> "I can predict Magnus Carlsen will beat you at chess, but not which piece he will use to checkmate you"

Sorry this is a terrible nitpick but he will probably checkmate you with the queen. Majority of checkmates are with queen, 90% are queen or rook.

7:02 PM · Sep 20, 2026 · 58.4K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Full text of the @prerat tweet quoted in the previous capture: a nitpick on the Magnus Carlsen chess analogy, noting that most checkmates are delivered by the queen and 90% by queen or rook.

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Nathan @NathanpmYoung

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Nathan 🔎 @NathanpmYoung · 8h

Funny, but to take it seriously a moment, imagine how bad a "beat Magnus Carlson" strategy it would be to always trade queens in order to avoid the most common checkmate.

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prerat @prerat · 13h
> "I can predict Magnus Carlsen will beat you at chess, but not which piece he will use to checkmate you"

Sorry this is a terrible nitpick but he will probab... [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Quote-tweet by @NathanpmYoung riffing on the Magnus Carlsen chess analogy for predicting superior intelligence (you can predict the outcome but not the means), arguing that a fixed counter-strategy like always trading queens would be bad; quotes a @prerat nitpick post.

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