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Unless you're Jonathan Schrantz, who famously beat stockfish on the hardest difficulty as black by playing the Stafford gambit. https://news.ycombinator.com/it
by seanhunter 5y ago
Unless you're Jonathan Schrantz, who famously beat stockfish on the hardest difficulty as black by playing the Stafford gambit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27829913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27829913 That being said it doesn't work with Stockfish 12.
But yeah dressing what is essentially a pure con (I don't think these even count as games of luck given the payout is not fair from game to game) as a game o skill is terrible.
- jerrre 5y agoYour link goes to this current page, I assumed you were linking to an article about that anecdote.
- seanhunter 5y agoThat's annoying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6miHXytFWQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6miHXytFWQ is the original. He has done some followups. For non-chess people, the Stafford is pretty dubious but very trappy.