Can anybody beat a computer at chess??

Just played a game. I never play chess and lasted really long but lost. The computer's good but not that good.

I beat it my first try. Then again I was a two-time state chess champion in middle school.

If you are the level where you know a few openings, it's not that hard to beat.

I believe Gary Kasparov did it the second time around against big blue.

that app sucks

it doesn't castle correctly....and if it doesn't do that, then the computer can't be that good.....if someone programmed a computer chess and couldn't even follow the rules of the game then I can't imagine that its playing algorith can be that efficient.....seeing as castling is one of the main moves of the game

Agreed. I quit when I castled and lost a rook.

Actually Big Blue won in the last match.

Didn't they use the technology from Big Blue to build Sky Net, which led to the rise of the machines?

DEEP BLUE

OldXCguy wrote:

Didn't they use the technology from Big Blue to build Sky Net, which led to the rise of the machines?

No, they used technology from other far more powerful computers at several government laboraties, combined with software developed in the late nineties that includes predictive linquistics, human response algorithms, and the largest databases in the world that would know more about you than you know about yourself.

Think of Skynetx1000.

I just played it once to a draw. Its a decent program probably 1800-2000 strength.

Kasparov has never play a program called big blue? Where did you hear this from? Kasparov played a program called deep thought and then its advanced version deep blue. But he has never played and there has never been a program called big blue.

Do you know ches?? wrote:

I just played it once to a draw. Its a decent program probably 1800-2000 strength.

Kasparov has never play a program called big blue? Where did you hear this from? Kasparov played a program called deep thought and then its advanced version deep blue. But he has never played and there has never been a program called big blue.

That program IS NOT 1800-2000 strength. I beat it in about 20 moves. Have you ever played an 1800 player?

It is 1200 AT BEST

probably more like 800-1000.

By the way, I am a 1908 USCF player.

Ha. That may be right but I know Deep Thought as the computer from Hitchhiker's Guide. I think there was Deep Fritz in the chess saga somewhere.

I think someday they may come up with a program to win every time (probably provided you get first move), but its not there yet. I think it's just a matter of teaching the computer what to do in every possible situation. A huge task, but finite.

A lot of the great players aren't supergeniuses, they've just played sooo much.

I bet John Connor can beat it.

Destroyed it, and I'm completely mediocre, so it's probably 1000 or under. It needlessly moved a knight into a position where it couldn't escape, didn't play the endgame right, dropped pawns when contested.

Recent Gary Kasparov press conference:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vbnySBqioB0

there was never a computer called big blue, deep thought was never a good chess computer and was developed into deep blue

furthermore, deep thought was named after the computer in the book

big blue is IBM's nickname (hence "blue chip" companies)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_%28chess_computer%29

USCF 2083 here. It played the correct opening moves for the KI def. Most u1600s won't get 10 moves without a mistake in a well known opening. It went about 12-15. THEN it started pushing its a pawn for no reason?? But the fact that a player would have to play the first 10 move at best I gave it a 1800 rating. I did only play it once though and maybe it was the/an opening it has been programmed for?

But it is well above 800 or 1000 or even 1200 as a few have said.

With that in mind anybody going to the world open next month? I'm lookin for an under prize :), anybody else?