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World Chess Champion Launches App

posted by Dopefish on Thursday February 27 2014, @06:30PM   
from the bobby-fischer-lives-on dept.

andrew writes "Magnus Carlsen, arguably the best chess player ever, has made a new chess app available on iTunes. PlayMagnus claims to be able to mimic the play of Magnus at different ages from age 5 to his current world championship strength at 23 years old. This is made possible by use of a customized chess engine built on thousands of different positions from his games.

From Reuters article:

So what is it like for Carlsen to play against his younger self?

"He is really tricky," the champion said. "Even Magnus at 11 years old was a very gifted tactician. A while ago I played as a test Magnus (aged) 14. I outplayed him at some point positionally. And just boom, boom, he tricked me tactically.

"But he makes mistakes as well, so I just have to be patient."

Magnus also plans to eventually add the functionality of on-line chess games against other app users, a service as old as the Internet, putting his app in direct competition with long established chess servers like FICS and ICC."

• Trick is to get the Magnus-app out of its database Trick is to get the Magnus-app out of its database (Score: 4, Informative) by regift_of_the_gods on Thursday February 27 2014, @07:13PM

  by regift_of_the_gods (138) on Thursday February 27 2014, @07:13PM (#8090)

  ... of Carlsen game history by giving it the Danish Gambit, the Silician Wing Gambit, or I forget what Andrew's third one was.

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• Re:Trick is to get the Magnus-app out of its datab (Score: 2) by andrew on Thursday February 27 2014, @07:38PM

  by andrew (755) on Thursday February 27 2014, @07:38PM (#8095)

  Play the Grob like Nakamura [chessgames.com] and maybe win in 255 moves!

  Unfortunately it's difficult to get a psychological advantage over an iPhone with an offbeat opening.

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• Re:Trick is to get the Magnus-app out of its datab (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @08:32PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2014, @08:32PM (#8108)

  > or I forget what Andrew's third one was.

  Getting involved in a land war in Asia?

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