{"id":4869,"date":"2012-06-22T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2012-06-22T04:20:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T08:20:18","slug":"is-chess-too-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/is-chess-too-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Chess Too Boring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/061812_0410_IsChessTooB1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chess isn&#8217;t exactly a game that has ever been associated with chills and thrills, but the high number of drawn matches in recent times might become a threat to the game writes KW Regan. What&#8217;s really interesting though is that there are a class of players that don&#8217;t draw games as much: computers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expert players now use sophisticated computer programs to prepare their moves in advance. This is in part what has led to the high number of draws.<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s surprising is when computers are left to battle it out against one another there are rarely any draws.<\/li>\n<li>One explanation is what Regan calls the &#8220;contempt&#8221; factor. In situations where a draw seems the way forward the programs behave more aggressively than humans.<\/li>\n<li>Since computers are also isolated from high-stakes and pressures they are more willing to take risks. In contrast those seeking to defend their championship name would be predisposed to draws over risky tactics.<\/li>\n<li>One solution might be to reduce the amount of time that games last. Rapid chess generally leads to fewer draws.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about why rapid chess isn&#8217;t necessarily the solution, how the length of games has changed over time, a match that demonstrates the problem, and other innovative and technical ways to solve the problem click <a href=\"http:\/\/rjlipton.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/31\/chess-knightmare-and-turings-dream\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/rjlipton.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/31\/chess-knightmare-and-turings-dream\/\">G\u00f6del&#8217;s Lost Letter and P=NP<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/06\/why-do-humans-play-chess-in-such-a-risk-averse-manner.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chess isn&#8217;t exactly a game that has ever been associated with chills and thrills, but the high number of drawn matches in recent times might become a threat to the game writes KW Regan. What&#8217;s really interesting though is that there are a class of players that don&#8217;t draw games as much: computers. Expert players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4869","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\/06\/061812_0410_IsChessTooB1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","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=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4951,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions\/4951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}