Chess Department
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It's a new month. I feel like restarting the Chessmaster 4000 Turbo Program today.
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I'd like to share these videos of the current world champion. I think they are funny.
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In those videos, what do you think the world champ was thinking? a. "Chess is getting boring." b. "Anand is boring. I want a new and different challenger." c. "Clear!" d. None of the above.
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In the second video, while the champion was "sleeping," the challenger looked at him for a few seconds; what do you think he thought? a. "Yoga Flame!" b. "Berserker Barrage!" c. "Disrespectful dope!" d. None of the above.
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Bobby Fischer on 60 Minutes Rewind
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Another set of free chess programs (my favorite is Der Bringer): http://chess.kearman.com/html/software.htm
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I think we have a chess master from Norway right now, Magnus Carlsen. I'm not much of a chess brain unfortunately, too much strategy...
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Chess is fun. Especially, if you know the do's and don't's or the principles of play.
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Don't get me wrong. I'm not being arrogant. I just believe no person or computer can defeat me now. I just play for draw but like what I said before, I'm always waiting for my opponent to make a mistake. Meaning, he makes a move that is different from my analysis.
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In my opinion, fast chess or speed chess is idiotic. Ironically, intelligent people play it.
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I installed Play Magnus into my phone.
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Good Job Jessie! You got me to thinking! I wonder where the original Deep Blue chess computer is now? That was quite a milestone in human history. "Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM. It is known for being the first piece of artificial intelligence to win both a chess game and a chess match against a reigning world champion under regular time controls. Deep Blue won its first game against a world champion on February 10, 1996, when it defeated Garry Kasparov in game one of a six-game match. However, Kasparov won three and drew two of the following five games, defeating Deep Blue by a score of 4?2. Deep Blue was then heavily upgraded, and played Kasparov again in May 1997. Deep Blue won game six, therefore winning the six-game rematch 3½?2½ and becoming the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion in a match under standard chess tournament time controls. Kasparov accused IBM of cheating and demanded a rematch. IBM refused and retired Deep Blue." ~ Wikipedia -
Thanks, Sur. I saw a documentary about that match. It's called Game Over, I think. Deep Blue is stored in IBM's main office.
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Carlsen's memory is super human. Take notice of how he rearrange the pieces. He doesn't even have a move list:
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jessiemillano:
Carlsen's memory is super human. Take notice of how he rearrange the pieces. He doesn't even have a move list:
I've watched a couple of videos about him. He can sit in a chair blindfolded with his back to a table and play chess with a dozen people at the same time, by keeping the position of each piece constantly memorized!
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Yeah, he was featured in 60 Minutes. He gave a blindfolded or handicapped simultaneous games against a dozen players. Other chess masters I know who could do that were Paul Morphy, Alexander Alekhine, and Mikhail Tal.
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I know only one chess move and it's queen to knight. I use it in many situations, even when I do the dishes, and I never lose, it's always a winner!
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Regarding the Play Magnus app, I realised that it is very vulnerable or open to cheating. Players - particularly the weak - can be aided by other chess programs and defeat the app and then proclaim to the world that they have defeated a strong version of the virtual Magnus. It's up to us anyway if we are gonna cheat on ourselves. Keep on playing that mind game...
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SurSteven:
I've watched a couple of videos about him. He can sit in a chair blindfolded with his back to a table and play chess with a dozen people at the same time, by keeping the position of each piece constantly memorized!
Unbelievable!!!Only experienced players - coupled with a memory like Carlsen's - can do that. I think when his opponent announces the move he somehow get a sense of what his opponent is trying to do. Now ELO rating is starting to make sense to me. I only noticed Carlsen when the news broke out that he had surpassed Kasparov's peak rating. But, still, I wasn't following nor interested on the latest happenings in professional chess. I only began to dig Carlsen after I downloaded a PGN file of annotated games of his championship match against Anand in 2013.
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Carlsen totally dominated a grandmaster and he only had one minute to play while his opponent had three or something:
