Chess Improves Machines and Humans Alike

erick99 writes "Chess provides a window into some more arcane philosophical matters. The remainder of this article will focus on two difficult, and interrelated, questions. The first has to do with the nature of reality; the second is about the prospects for human and artificial intelligence in grappling with reality. In both cases, the search for an answer leads through a board game with 32 pieces and 64 squares."

Comments

Re: Take out the enemy queen first, your chance of

[Black Parrot]

> winning the game will double at least.

Are you saying we should have assassinated Goering before landing in Normandy?

Re:What about GO?

[aardvarkjoe]

I've read that while computers can offer a credible competition to even a Chessmater, there is no current "go" program that can challenge a true master of that game.

Congratulations, you are the winner of the "+1, first one to talk about Go in a chess story" moderation. You get free admission to the club -- but I'm afraid that given that searching Slashdot for chess stories reveals several hundred, parking will be a bit scarce.

Slashdot Turing Test

[IceAgeComing]

Holden: You look down and you see a slasdot troll, Leon. It's crawling toward you.

Leon: Troll? What's that?

Holden: You know what a loser is?

Leon: Of course.

Holden: Same thing.

Deckard (Harrison Ford) giving a test. You're deleting spam from your inbox. You come across a full page nude photo of a girl.

Rachael (Sean Young) Is this testing whether I'm a spammer or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?

Re:Here's the text

[Anonymous Coward]

There's a sad reason. Some here on this forum, otherwise known as trolls, attempt to get +5 Informative by posting said text non-anonmously, such that they can boost their karma and wreak havoc with moderator points at some later date.

By the grandparent doing it anonymously, it's removed the opportunity for a troll to benefit from doing it themselves.

I know, it's absolutely stupid that such games must be played.

Imagine...

[xeon4life]

Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people living for today... Imagine there's no countries, It isnt hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace... Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people Sharing all the world... You may say Im a dreamer, but Im not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will live as one. - by John Lennon