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posted by Dopefish on Thursday February 27 2014, @06:30PM   Printer-friendly
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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."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by tbuddy on Thursday February 27 2014, @07:15PM

    by tbuddy (932) on Thursday February 27 2014, @07:15PM (#8091)

    iOS exclusive and via in-app purchases you can give 70% of the money you spend on it to arguably the best chess player are two reasons you should run, not walk to this app.

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