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We are post peak-chess. The interest fell sharply after Kasparov's loss to DeepBlue. I was a member of a chess club, that went from 30 tables to 5 in a span of
by internet_user 8y ago
We are post peak-chess. The interest fell sharply after Kasparov's loss to DeepBlue. I was a member of a chess club, that went from 30 tables to 5 in a span of couple of years.
- narrator 8y agoI heard that even grand masters get beaten by cell phone chess games these days.
- internet_user 8y agoProbably not that far from truth. Yet I don't see cellphone chess programs make first page, for some reason. Why is that?
- Bootvis 8y agoExactly the truth, actually.
- mmmrtl 8y agoMaybe the same reason you don't see news stories about chess grandmasters beating 8 year olds? They're out of their class and dramatically outmatched - the cellphone chess programs can't really compete with better resourced chess computers
- cjbprime 8y agoI heard that cars are pretty good at distance athletics too, but no-one gives them any credit.
- internet_user 8y agoUntil they reduce employment.
- systemspeed 8y agoSpeaks to the fragility of the human mind. The human collective organism, as it were, instead of rising against the challenge from the machines, decides to shift focus elsewhere. Chess is nowhere close to being a solved game, yet we're already treating it as such.
- patates 8y agoOut of curiosity, when would you consider chess, or any game of similar complexity for that matter, "solved"?
- azeotropic 8y agoWhen it's possible to predict the winner from an arbitrary board position, given optimal play by both players. Checkers, for example, is solved. Chess and Go are not (even though computers can outperform human players). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_game https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_game
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- internet_user 8y agoWe all know those games will not be solved by wetware. At best, a human-silicon hybrid, of some sort.