Iâm now inspired to follow chess more. Itâs an incredible game and you can learn more in it than anywhere else about logical thinking and solving problems.
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Chess cheaters have gotten really sophisticated. The idea is that they may be using bionic contact lenses!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_contact_lens
:eek:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_contact_lens
:eek:
The World Cup live from Tromso. I bet the fact that the sun sets for something like four hours a day is gravely affecting some players:
http://www.chessworldcup2013.com/live
http://www.chessworldcup2013.com/live
You are the only person in existance that wants to play against a computer. It is no fun to get pummeled all the time. However, it is a great way to train.
Just go to
www.freechess.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Internet_Chess_Server
You will need an interface. People like Thief, Babas or Raptor. I think there is a way to prevent engines or to request them.
There are smartphone apps
http://chessapps.info/
News
Opportunity Lost: Chess in CPS
http://www.il-chess.org/index.php/news/589-opportunity-lost-chess-in-cps
Opportunity Lost: Chess in CPS
http://www.il-chess.org/index.php/news/589-opportunity-lost-chess-in-cps
"Forty years ago, in a paper in American Scientist, Herbert Simon and William Chase drew one of the most famous conclusions in the study of expertise:
There are no instant experts in chessâcertainly no instant masters or grandmasters. There appears not to be on record any case (including Bobby Fischer) where a person reached grandmaster level with less than about a decade's intense preoccupation with the game. We would estimate, very roughly, that a master has spent perhaps 10,000 to 50,000 hours staring at chess positionsâ¦..."
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo...nd-hour-rule-complexity.html?intcid=obnetwork
There are no instant experts in chessâcertainly no instant masters or grandmasters. There appears not to be on record any case (including Bobby Fischer) where a person reached grandmaster level with less than about a decade's intense preoccupation with the game. We would estimate, very roughly, that a master has spent perhaps 10,000 to 50,000 hours staring at chess positionsâ¦..."
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo...nd-hour-rule-complexity.html?intcid=obnetwork