When an Amateur Challenges a Chess Grandmaster

Self-described 'compulsion learner' Max Doissh challenges Master Magnus Carlson to play chess. What could be wrong? Video: George Downs / Wall Street Journal. Photo: Gordon Welters of the Wall Street Journal

Chess gurus, political activists and writers joined Taylor, Russia, Putin, how education should change, Magnus Carlson, a favorite city of chess, is probably a challenger, Tolstoy v. Stoevsky, the benefits of stress, and why should we speed up the quest for new frontiers and challenges? He has a new book. I think the title deeply. Gary himself is a very profound thinker in almost every field. Subtitles are where the end of machine intelligence and human creativity starts. In Gary's previous book, "Winter is coming" is written, but this time it's a lot of fun, but at least in a sense it is spring. And finally, spring has come.

Until a while ago, in 1997, another game that was once booked for the human thought field was acquired by a single machine. Of course, this is chess, and Deep Blue has defeated world chess champion and chess master Gary Kasparov. This is the ultimate milestone for computers, is it actually a milestone in artificial intelligence? Many experts and even some avid observers do not think so. Specifically, of course, the machine can win an independent logic game, chess. After all, the deep blue victory is mainly because it can play faster and farther than it was imagined by Garry Kasparov.

The event ended abruptly. The winner was confirmed to be a pair of amateur-American chess players using three computers at the same time, not the most advanced PC master. Their skill, which "manipulates" and "guides" your computer very deeply and correctly, effectively offset the opponent's excellent chess understanding and the powerful computing power of other participants. Weak people + machines + better crafts are better than powerful computers.