The Human Computer

I want to talk about something I call the Art of Evasion. Bobby Fischer famously said, “chess is war on a board.” Well war is something I happen to know something about and I agree. Evasion is perhaps the principle strategy employed in all forms of warfare. After all there are no cowards in war, and everyone wants to live. Sun Tzu said, “If your enemy is stronger, evade him.” This is a strategy that plays a roll in all chess, but is most acutely observable in speed chess. Why?: Becaus...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The first time I played a 3000+ chess engine I defeated it. I proceeded to defeat it hundreds of times. Evidence of this has been presented on Facebook and exists in my files. But winning wasn’t the primary thing learned. What was learned was the how, the why, and the conversation techniques leading to the discovery I made a reality today. Looking over some games from my game history recently I realized something. When I “defeated” th...