Curtains for human chess players.Curtains for human chess Human chess is a variant of chess, often played at Renaissance Fairs, where people take on the roles of the various chess pieces (king, knight, bishop, etc.). This is typically done on an outdoor field, with the squares of the board marked out on the grass. players? It's getting harder to tell the difference between a computer and a human being--at least when it comes to playing chess. That was the result of an informal test at last month's Association for Computing Machinery See ACM. Association for Computing Machinery - Association for Computing meeting in Denver. In the test, Alex Fishbein, a computer science student at the University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
The audience, made up largely of chess and computer experts, did somewhat better. Two people, including the author of a computer chess program not involved in the test, managed to make the right choice seven out of eight times. Many managed to spot two of the three computers. "To tell the difference,' says Monroe Newborn of McGill University in Montreal, "you've got to be a real expert at both chess and computers.' Newborn's own computer chess program, OSTRICH ostrich, common name for a large flightless bird (Struthio camelus) of Africa and parts of SW Asia, allied to the rhea, the emu and the extinct moa. It is the largest of living birds; some males reach a height of 8 ft (244 cm) and weigh from 200 to 300 lb , "turned out to play most like a computer,' he says. OSTRICH also finished ninth among 10 competitors in the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. computer chess championship (SN: 10/26/85, p. 260). |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion