Detecting Chess Cheats Taxes Computers

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @05:29AM from the listen-for-the-synthesized-voice-in-the-background dept.

First time accepted submitter jeffrlamb writes "Cheating in live chess matches — fueled by powerful computer programs that play better than people do, as well as sophisticated communication technologies — is becoming a big problem for world championship chess. Kenneth W. Regan is attempting to construct a mathematical proof to see if someone cheated; the trouble is that so many variables and outliers must be taken into account. Modeling and factoring human behavior in competition turns out to be very difficult."

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Re:Huh? by Fourier404 · 2012-03-20 05:33 · Score: 5, Informative

RTFA, you can use a computer to come up with a better move than you would have on your own.
Re:Huh? by timeOday · 2012-03-20 10:20 · Score: 3, Informative

Deep Blue and its descendants aren't exactly something a spectator could hide in their coat.
Pocket Fritz 4 achieved a higher Elo rating than any human, and that was on a PocketPC in 2009. And mobile hardware has evolved at an amazing pace since then.