Computer Chess Page #3

so let's keep it light,

let's keep it collegial, be respectful,

and of course have fun.

Let's begin round 1.

(Beeping)

So, er, Tom Schoesser -

is he showing up?

He's a good guy.

Way ahead of his time.

He's like Tesla, he's so far ahead.

I wanna talk to him about

the "Eureka moment".

And frankly, we're on the way to a kind

of timid strategy on the side of White.

I think the reason is, they are playing

the very, very strong Caltech TSAR 3.0 team.

In this case, maybe the programme

is trying for a draw?

In fact I defy anybody

to tell me any theory of Tesla's

that's been disproven today.

I mean,

wireless energy transfer,

radio before Marconi,

the spark plug,

alternating current engine...

Rook to D8.

- Maybe the Industrial Revolution.

- No, it says E8...

TSAR takes pawn.

Queen takes queen.

And rather than capture queen,

the rook just approaches it.

Is there any possibility that this is, er...

some kind of, er, very advanced...

I mean, er...

we just gave up a queen to, er...

to get his queen there

and now we're basically just...

Well...

Um...

- Don't move that rook.

- All right?

- Be right back.

- Excuse me! Excuse me...

There seems to be a little glitch here,

maybe we should just

follow with the camera

and I'll look over here

at the STASIA SHORTSLEEV game.

We're having

serious technical problems,

- I need to run a very, very brief diagnostic.

- I'm sorry, once the clock has started...

There's a tiny...

I'm almost certain I know what it is,

it's just going to take

a moment of our time.

I appreciate that,

but unfortunately once the clock has started

we cannot halt the game.

OK, er...

That's understandable.

We can go ahead

and leave the clock running.

It's gonna be a very brief diagnostic.

I'm almost certain

I know what the issue is.

- I'm sorry, there's no adjusting the code.

- We're at a point now... this game is not...

And MIT just won.

Great playing everyone, great round.

I've got your new table assignments

up here on the projector.

Eight of you will be moving.

Er, let's be careful and,

of course, watch for cables.

Good luck.

Oh, God...

Peter, can you tell me

what's going on here?

I mean, chess is the game where you're

supposed to protect the king, right?

Yes.

Rather than sending him out to die

at the earliest opportunity.

- Is that right?

- Yes.

- Yeah?

- OK.

Do you have any idea what game it is

that TSAR is trying to play right now?

Can you enter the move?

(I Blues tune on electric keyboard)

Scotch, man?

God, yes.

Another of these

for the Rules Committee here?

(Chuckles) Thank you so much.

A lot of late night coding sessions

fuelled by this stuff.

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