{"id":3540,"date":"2012-04-05T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2012-04-05T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T15:13:18","slug":"detecting-cheaters-in-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/detecting-cheaters-in-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Detecting Cheaters in Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040412_0533_DetectingCh1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since computers are able to beat even the top grandmasters in chess, cheaters often use &#8216;bathroom breaks&#8217; to consult computers for advice about what moves they should play next. Dylan Loeb McClain reports on the efforts of one Professor to use computers to catch cheaters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calculating the moves that players make which are statistical outliers is difficult due to the small sample size involved. A typical chess tournament only has around 150 moves per player.<\/li>\n<li>The algorithms also suggest that people have become much better at playing chess. The best players of the 1970s would only rank 40<sup>th<\/sup> today.<\/li>\n<li>In essence the computer is trying to model human decision making which has several applications beyond chess. Amazon, for example, could use it to advertize particular products to consumers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about how sophisticated the models currently are, what, exactly, is toiletgate, and other applications for the program click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/20\/science\/a-computer-program-to-detect-possible-cheating-in-chess.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/20\/science\/a-computer-program-to-detect-possible-cheating-in-chess.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/03\/assorted-links-401.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29&amp;utm_content=Netvibes\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since computers are able to beat even the top grandmasters in chess, cheaters often use &#8216;bathroom breaks&#8217; to consult computers for advice about what moves they should play next. Dylan Loeb McClain reports on the efforts of one Professor to use computers to catch cheaters: Calculating the moves that players make which are statistical outliers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040412_0533_DetectingCh1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3551,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/3551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}