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Computer-Resistant Chess Variants

posted by mattie_p on Saturday February 22 2014, @11:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the computer-resists-you dept.

andrew writes: "Over the last decade, computers have been able to dominate human chess players. in that time attention has shifted from creating anti-computer strategies to creating computer-resistant chess variants. The inventor of one such game, Arimraa, has an interesting article on Chessbase.com about what it takes to make a board game in which it is still possible for the best human players to remain competitive against computer software."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by regift_of_the_gods on Saturday February 22 2014, @01:27PM

    by regift_of_the_gods (138) on Saturday February 22 2014, @01:27PM (#4878)

    By now it's pretty obvious that if you allow unlimited hardware, humans will lose.

    How about a "Man vs. Small Machine" competition where the machine is restricted to be commodity hardware, e.g. a Playstation 4 or an Xbox One with no custom hardware and no use of the GPU except for video; or an equivalent machine based on the AMD Jaguar chip used by those game consoles.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by andrew on Saturday February 22 2014, @01:57PM

    by andrew (755) on Saturday February 22 2014, @01:57PM (#4886)

    I still lose to my goddamn smart phone.

  • (Score: 1) by drgibbon on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:17PM

    by drgibbon (74) on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:17PM (#4898) Journal

    At chess, yes. But humans still beat the best Go and Arimaa programs pretty easily.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by wjwlsn on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:38PM

    by wjwlsn (171) on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:38PM (#4909) Homepage Journal

    I like the idea of human+computer pairs playing chess against each other. Vernon Vinge talked about this in some of his fiction (e.g., "The Peace War") and Gary Kasparov popularized a form of this as "Advanced Chess":

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by jcd on Saturday February 22 2014, @04:32PM

    by jcd (883) on Saturday February 22 2014, @04:32PM (#4941)

    This is exactly why I don't really understand trying to compete against a supercomputer at something that's math/strategy based. What about something more unique? Like poetry? Give it a parameter - "autumn" or something of that nature (no pun intended) - and compete against a human opponent to write meaningful poetry in a limited amount of time.

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