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Derren Brown vs 9 Chess Players
Derren Brown · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2019–2022).
SignalTube analysis
Among 21 other demo videos tagged Magic, puzzles & curiosities, the mean is 2.0 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 1.9 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
33% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2019–2022; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 9 minutes 57 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2015-11-11.
- Channel / speaker
- Derren Brown
- Verified runtime
- 9m 57s
- YouTube upload date
- 2015-11-11
- Hacker News mention years
- 2019–2022
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Magic, puzzles & curiosities. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derren Brown vs 9 Chess PlayersCurrent video | 1 | 1 | 33% | — | 9m 57s | 2015-11-11 |
| Dani DaOrtiz at Fool US 2022 (the act that Penn and Teller didn’t even try to figure out.)demo · dani daortiz | 5 | 5 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 10m 30s | 2022-11-05 |
| [1299] Unpickable Locks From Stuff Made Heredemo · LockPickingLawyer | 5 | 3 | 63% | No recorded overlap | 10m 35s | 2021-05-31 |
| Lars Andersen: A new level of archerydemo · larsandersen23 | 4 | 4 | 57% | No recorded overlap | 5m 52s | 2015-01-23 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Markov Chat Bot Disaster Story”. Its short rationale: Simple, clever chess trick by Derren Brown.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Ludic Fallacy”. Its short rationale: Derren Brown winning simultaneous chess games against grandmasters.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Can Chess Survive Artificial Intelligence?”. Its short rationale: Derren Brown beat chess players by relaying moves between opponents.