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."

3 of 159 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Obsolete by Hatta · 2012-03-20 05:36 · Score: 1, Interesting

Chess is obsolete then. Better to pick a game where people can still beat computers.

--
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Re:Huh? by AK+Marc · 2012-03-20 05:52 · Score: 3, Interesting

Are they aiming the computer to detect only if they had outside help from a computer, so that outside help from a human chess player would not be detected?

--
Learn to love Alaska
Re:Huh? by mcavic · 2012-03-20 05:59 · Score: 3, Interesting

So check the players for technology, and block outside communications. No algorithm needed.