Recluse schizophrenic, was top chess player at 17 [video]

I should mention it's in French.

Summary: Yann was French chess champion of minors, then went to engineering. Alas at 27 was hit hard by schizophrenia and basically retired to the house in the video.

For years he's been studying the Egytpian Book of the Dead and still plays chess leisurely online. You can watch him play bullet like it's nothing at level 2200.

As night falls, the videographer follows him along a gloomy street to the grocery store. It's all fascinating.

House full of messy stacks of books.