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Top French Chess Players Suspended For Cheating
cf18 writes "The French chess federation has suspended three top players for violating sporting ethics at a chess olympiad in Siberia last September. The allegation claims while the first member was playing, a second member would watch the game via internet, use software to find the best move, and send it to the third member via SMS. The third member would then sit himself at a particular table in the competition hall. Each table represented an agreed square on the chess board."
My first thought, how would steroids help in chess? Guess chess isn't like other sports.
What can the French win at... let me see. France is internationally competitive in:
* Having names for various minor variations in sexual acts.
* Baking bread.
* Making wine.
* Taking vacation (30 per year legal minimum vacation plus 10 holidays).
* Smoking.
* Organizing nation-paralyzing strikes.
* Intellectual bullshit sessions.
Of course on the negative side is there's their world class national chauvinism (they invented the word, after all). In that respect the French are pretty much like Americans, but without the overwhelming military power and a with a more appealing lifestyle.
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It wasn't cheating.
In France, even the knights move like Queens.
Accordingly, I'm supposed to lead with my King and be the first to summon Exodia.
A Grand Master is among us. *bows*
which is totally what she said
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Of course, parkour is just a fancy form of running away.
The question 'are computers better at chess than humans' is as meaningful as 'are submarines better at swimming than humans'
Millions? Fritz and Rybka are lucky to get 11 moves ahead if you let it run for hours! Millions of moves into the future is really bullshit. Not totally though, because in 1 thing you are right. If the database runs out they tend to try every move yes. But show me a computer and chess program that can think 14 moves ahead within 1 hour... You can't because they don't exist.
OK - you're either fantastically stupid or you're just pretending not to understand him (which is also fantastically stupid). Obviously he didn't mean a chain of moves 1,000,000 moves long. He meant the computers consider millions of individual moves. Which they do. Some of those moves might be 10 moves away, the bulk of them will be much closer. And you, despite obviously doing some Googling, apparently haven't given up on the idea that consulting a database is in any way the prime technique a computer chess program uses (beyond the opening).
All in all, this article has had some of the stupidest, most depressing Slashdot comments I've ever seen. It's like reading the comments on a Youtube video.
Let's not stir that bag of worms...
You can't compare a grandmaster that has a fabulous direct knowledge of 5000-15.000 games to a database that has every important game since the invention of notation in them. My own database at this moment holds over 15 million games, That is far beyond what any human is capable of.
Wait, so you're an AI that has learned to troll slashdot about chess?
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