Thursday, February 17, 2011

not directly about chess....

...but chess players who have experienced the amazing capacities and surprising limitations of chess engines can probably relate to IBM's Watson project better than most of the general public.

I've lived in Chicago all my adult life, and I'd always assumed that Midway Airport was named after the Midway Plaisance.  Oops!

P.S.  Others are seeing the relevance to chess, too: here, Kasparov is invoked to argue for human-cylon collaboration.

3 comments:

Ch1cag0Rob said...

As Emo Phillips once said, "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing."

Frederick Rhine said...

But what about chess boxing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing

Frederick Rhine said...

What city's airports are named after a WWII hero and a WWII battle? Elementary, my dear Watson!