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World Chess Champion Launches App

posted by Dopefish on Thursday February 27 2014, @02:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the bobby-fischer-lives-on dept.
andrew writes "Magnus Carlsen, arguably the best chess player ever, has made a new chess app available on iTunes. PlayMagnus claims to be able to mimic the play of Magnus at different ages from age 5 to his current world championship strength at 23 years old. This is made possible by use of a customized chess engine built on thousands of different positions from his games.

From Reuters article:

So what is it like for Carlsen to play against his younger self?

"He is really tricky," the champion said. "Even Magnus at 11 years old was a very gifted tactician. A while ago I played as a test Magnus (aged) 14. I outplayed him at some point positionally. And just boom, boom, he tricked me tactically.

"But he makes mistakes as well, so I just have to be patient."

Magnus also plans to eventually add the functionality of on-line chess games against other app users, a service as old as the Internet, putting his app in direct competition with long established chess servers like FICS and ICC."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Lagg on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:50PM

    by Lagg (105) on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:50PM (#8131) Homepage Journal
    Did he write the game himself? It sure seems like it's trying to say he did. If not it may be more proper to say he endorsed it instead of released it. I have a feeling this'll be a program that actually ends up being worse than standard chess AI because it uses pre-recorded moves whereas other games try to figure out the best next move. So this is starting to seem like he's just being paid to endorse it and it's yet another chess video game. Someone in the comments said it was probably done by EA, I see no proof of this (though I didn't actually look at the app store page) but that would be hilarious. It wouldn't surprise me either. Here comes the "Magnus age 20" DLC.
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