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Movies and television shows are full of blunders, some more noticeable than others, and each with their specific guild of victims. Ornithologists fume when British period dramas are overdubbed with American birdsongs. Government employees will tell you that the supposed main White House staffer in Contact has a nonexistent job. Archeologists hate movie shipwrecks, and marine biologists are already mad about the zombie sharks in the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean installment, which, as cartilaginous fishes, should not have ribs—even ghostly ones.
But these are merely occasional grievances. There's one group of experts who can barely flip on the television without being exposed to egregious, head-on-desk mistakes: chess players.
"There are a ton of chess mistakes in TV and in film," says Mike Klein, a writer and videographer for Chess.com. While different experts cite different error ratios, from "20 percent" to "much more often than not," all agree: Hollywood is terrible at chess, even though they really don't have to be. "There are so many [errors], it's hard to keep track," says Grandmaster Ilja Zaragatski, of chess24. "And there are constantly [new ones] coming out."
[...] Peter Doggers of Chess.com notes another Dramatic Checkmate move: the felled king. "Tipping over your king as a way of resigning the game is only done in movies," he says. (See Mr. Holland's Opus, in which Jay Thomas slaps his king down after being owned by Richard Dreyfuss).A normal chess player will just go in for a good-game-style handshake. "This falling king thing has somehow become a strong image in cinematography," he says, "But chess players always think: 'Oh no, there we go again...'"
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(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday March 23 2017, @03:45PM (2 children)
But they *do* have an answer for that. "an overload". You see, the consoles are not designed to route that much power.
Or are us saying any overload should only blow the relays that will obviously be needed?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday March 23 2017, @04:13PM (1 child)
Yes, an overload should only blow out relays. There shouldn't even be any power connections to the consoles capable of routing anywhere near that much power. Fiber-optic cabling can't route any power at all, at least not electrical power, only a tiny amount of light used for signaling. Even if you designed a ship like that with modern electronics technology, and for cheapness's sake used Ethernet cable instead of fiber, 30 gauge Ethernet wire isn't going to route any power at all; the wire would simply vaporize somewhere, probably close to the overload spot. The wire itself would act as a fuse. Modern cars even do this, and have for a long time; instead of using fuses in some places, they use "fusable links", which is nothing more than a short section of wire of small diameter which will burn up and fail first.
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Thursday March 23 2017, @06:39PM
Well, some PHB might have overheard that "standardizing makes everything simpler" and later asked if the panel's power-req could be routed via the turbolift power system cables... or maybe they decided on using phaser-grade electrical system.
I mean, we are talking about a universe where most stuff is virtually free and superconductors are readily available - the potential for PHBs to run amok with no budgetrestrictions are scary.