Taphonomic Hyperthymesia

All gangly arms and legs, he’d been invited to compete with the country’s 11 best players in the Rosenwald Memorial.

In a way, it was his coming-out party. With his supposedly preternaturally high I.Q. (181, higher than Einstein’s) and capacious memory (where he stored the positions, annotations and analysis of a century’s worth of games, many played out while sitting at school), it was said that the child prodigy loathed losing and had just learned to do so without crying.