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World Chess Champion Launches App

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

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by andrew on Thursday February 27 2014, @07:45PM

    by andrew (755) on Thursday February 27 2014, @07:45PM (#8096)

    He does have an excellent memory. Every great chess player has a freakish ability to remember chess games, not only their own but ones that have studied of other players. If the game was played in a rated tournament, which Magnus has played a lot of, then it is required to keep a score sheet and write down all the moves. The exception to this is blitz and rapid games where there is not enough time to record the moves. Today modern master level tournament and match games are recorded electronically on digital boards [chesscentral.com]. There's also the thousands of games he's played on-line that are archived out there on places like ICC.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday February 27 2014, @08:03PM

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday February 27 2014, @08:03PM (#8100) Journal

    archived out there on places like ICC.

    Ok, so Bobby Fischer was something of a bad boy, but does that mean the International Criminal Court has to track all these buys? ;-)

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