Remember Andriy Slyusarchuk? The chess amateur who read three thousand books about the game and then went on to beat Rybka blindfold? The Ukrainian professor performs other mental feats, like memorizing 80 chess boards in 4½ minutes and then identifying changes made to them. GM Georgy Timoshenko took part in the act and wrote a wonderfully entertaining expose.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7190 :sm4:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7190 :sm4: