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World Computer Chess Championships Underway
azaris writes "While the FIDE World Championships for human players in Tripoli, Libya are down to the last two contestants, the computers are playing their own 12th World Computer Chess Championship in Ramat-Gan, Israel. How will the open source chess engine Crafty do against the proprietary closed engines? Will the computers play more interesting chess than their human counterparts?"
As long as you don't give them exclusive control to the pod bay door, I think computers should be allowed to play chess as they please.
Computers play their own championship?
Ultimately this will have to result in stalemate after stalemate won't it?
Kinda like WOPR in 'Wargames' playing tic-tac-toe with itself.
Also, the computer isn't going to throw a hissyfit when they lose. Or am I the only one who watches chess just for the losing nerd thorwing a complete wobbler and whining like a little girl?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
It always ends up AWP'ing my queen! I suspect an aimbot.
Can Robot Jox be far off?
The Russians pretty much dominate human chess. Now that things have shifted to machine chess, robots with chainsaws in the crotch are an obvious next move.
" Just out of curiosity, what would you consider to be a genuine USAian last name? Washington, Jefferson, or Franklin?"
Dances With Wolves?
#!/usr/bin/english
Computers dont have finite limits like a person. That's true. I can only count to 32768.