One thing I haven’t seen yet in these comments: the cheating scandal brought a lot of attention to the game. It was a great story to pique a young and curious imagination:
- chess is a board game in my closet next to parcheesi and backgammon but it turns out there are chess professionals who play high stakes games
- computers are so powerful that they can beat the best chess players, and you can use a computer to cheat
- the allegation is that a professional chess player managed to receive some kind of covert signal to tell him the right moves. It’s like a spy movie
- the drama continued to unfold with deep statistical analysis of prior games, $100 million lawsuits, and more
- chess is a board game in my closet next to parcheesi and backgammon but it turns out there are chess professionals who play high stakes games
- computers are so powerful that they can beat the best chess players, and you can use a computer to cheat
- the allegation is that a professional chess player managed to receive some kind of covert signal to tell him the right moves. It’s like a spy movie
- the drama continued to unfold with deep statistical analysis of prior games, $100 million lawsuits, and more