A pretty fantastic thread featuring vintage chess photos. [via]
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Bobby Fischer: From prodigy to pariah. Fischer, who registered an IQ of 180, once said that he did n
Bobby Fischer: From prodigy to pariah.
Fischer, who registered an IQ of 180, once said that he did not consider himself to be a genius at chess. “I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.” He was not only furnishing his own myth when he made that statement, but also playing to our romantic notions of genius as a kind of destiny.
Related: LIFE gallery of famous recluses.
Here’s a game they need to port to the iPad — Quantum Chess. [via]
In the quantum chess computer game created by undergraduate computer science student Alice Wismath, a piece that should be a knight could simultaneously also be a queen, a pawn or something else. The player doesn’t know what the second state might be or which of the two states the piece will choose when it is moved.
