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Yeah, I was disappointed that the analogy to poker was so weak ("both make people worry about cheating"). I think there's a more interesting argument to make,
by evrydayhustling 4y ago
Yeah, I was disappointed that the analogy to poker was so weak ("both make people worry about cheating"). I think there's a more interesting argument to make, that folks grinding their way through middle levels of chess expertise have to wade through a noisy metagame of opponents playing out canned strategies that depend on whether their opponent recognizes the weird trick or not. Fool's mate is as old as chess, but the availability of computers to find deeper tricks and new suckers to play them against is new!
- alehlopeh 4y agoHonestly in my reading, that is the point the article is making. Chess engines are changing the nature of creativity by making people recognize weird tricks as such, where presumably they used to be less common. It’s very possible I was too charitable in my interpretation, though. I don’t know a lot about competitive chess at any level.