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This one's for all humanity. Ukrainian Andrew Slyusarchuk, 39 years old, neurosurgeon by profession, has taken on Rybka-4 and beaten him(her/it) blindfold!
Nope, he's not a grandmaster (and doesn't intend to give Vishy Anand any competition). He says, he wanted to display to the world the power of the human mind. What a celebration for all of us!
Andrew was searched thoroughly for any hidden devices before the event. He says, he just learned it all up! He won with white then drew with black to win the match. Incidentally, Andrew plan a simul against 150 Grandmasters. By the way, Andrew specialises in improving memory technologies and knows by heart 20,000 books and 30 million digits of the pi.
Rybka 4 beaten blindfold by neurosurgeon
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Unbelievable!
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Re: Rybka 4 beaten blindfold by neurosurgeon
Forgive me if I sound a bit dubious, but I am not sure I believe all of the above.Graham Banks wrote:http://www.chessblog.com/2011/04/comput ... eaten.html
This one's for all humanity. Ukrainian Andrew Slyusarchuk, 39 years old, neurosurgeon by profession, has taken on Rybka-4 and beaten him(her/it) blindfold!
Nope, he's not a grandmaster (and doesn't intend to give Vishy Anand any competition). He says, he wanted to display to the world the power of the human mind. What a celebration for all of us!
Andrew was searched thoroughly for any hidden devices before the event. He says, he just learned it all up! He won with white then drew with black to win the match. Incidentally, Andrew plan a simul against 150 Grandmasters. By the way, Andrew specialises in improving memory technologies and knows by heart 20,000 books and 30 million digits of the pi.
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Does sound rather extraordinary, doesn't it?Dayffd wrote:Forgive me if I sound a bit dubious, but I am not sure I believe all of the above.
The only link in English I can find about him is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Slyusarchuk
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Wow...Graham Banks wrote:http://www.chessblog.com/2011/04/comput ... eaten.html
This one's for all humanity. Ukrainian Andrew Slyusarchuk, 39 years old, neurosurgeon by profession, has taken on Rybka-4 and beaten him(her/it) blindfold!
Nope, he's not a grandmaster (and doesn't intend to give Vishy Anand any competition). He says, he wanted to display to the world the power of the human mind. What a celebration for all of us!
Andrew was searched thoroughly for any hidden devices before the event. He says, he just learned it all up! He won with white then drew with black to win the match. Incidentally, Andrew plan a simul against 150 Grandmasters. By the way, Andrew specialises in improving memory technologies and knows by heart 20,000 books and 30 million digits of the pi.
Can he remember to put the toilet seat down if he lives with a woman?
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Re: Rybka 4 beaten blindfold by neurosurgeon
Funny. It's humanly impossible. At least the part with 30 million digits of pi is 100% a joke.Graham Banks wrote:http://www.chessblog.com/2011/04/comput ... eaten.html
This one's for all humanity. Ukrainian Andrew Slyusarchuk, 39 years old, neurosurgeon by profession, has taken on Rybka-4 and beaten him(her/it) blindfold!
Nope, he's not a grandmaster (and doesn't intend to give Vishy Anand any competition). He says, he wanted to display to the world the power of the human mind. What a celebration for all of us!
Andrew was searched thoroughly for any hidden devices before the event. He says, he just learned it all up! He won with white then drew with black to win the match. Incidentally, Andrew plan a simul against 150 Grandmasters. By the way, Andrew specialises in improving memory technologies and knows by heart 20,000 books and 30 million digits of the pi.
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Re: Rybka 4 beaten blindfold by neurosurgeon
The problem is that the claims would need to be verified, and claiming they *were* verified is even more unbelievable than the claim they were done. Why?Graham Banks wrote:http://www.chessblog.com/2011/04/comput ... eaten.html
This one's for all humanity. Ukrainian Andrew Slyusarchuk, 39 years old, neurosurgeon by profession, has taken on Rybka-4 and beaten him(her/it) blindfold!
Nope, he's not a grandmaster (and doesn't intend to give Vishy Anand any competition). He says, he wanted to display to the world the power of the human mind. What a celebration for all of us!
Andrew was searched thoroughly for any hidden devices before the event. He says, he just learned it all up! He won with white then drew with black to win the match. Incidentally, Andrew plan a simul against 150 Grandmasters. By the way, Andrew specialises in improving memory technologies and knows by heart 20,000 books and 30 million digits of the pi.
Consider the claim he memorized 30 million PI numbers. It isn't so much that it is impossible, I wont judge that, but how one tests it. For example, as a mere reference, one digit per second, non-stop, 24h in 24, would take 347+ days. And so on.
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Re: Rybka 4 beaten blindfold by neurosurgeon
proving that he does not remember 30 million digits of PI is easyAlbert Silver wrote:The problem is that the claims would need to be verified, and claiming they *were* verified is even more unbelievable than the claim they were done. Why?Graham Banks wrote:http://www.chessblog.com/2011/04/comput ... eaten.html
This one's for all humanity. Ukrainian Andrew Slyusarchuk, 39 years old, neurosurgeon by profession, has taken on Rybka-4 and beaten him(her/it) blindfold!
Nope, he's not a grandmaster (and doesn't intend to give Vishy Anand any competition). He says, he wanted to display to the world the power of the human mind. What a celebration for all of us!
Andrew was searched thoroughly for any hidden devices before the event. He says, he just learned it all up! He won with white then drew with black to win the match. Incidentally, Andrew plan a simul against 150 Grandmasters. By the way, Andrew specialises in improving memory technologies and knows by heart 20,000 books and 30 million digits of the pi.
Consider the claim he memorized 30 million PI numbers. It isn't so much that it is impossible, I wont judge that, but how one tests it. For example, as a mere reference, one digit per second, non-stop, 24h in 24, would take 347+ days. And so on.
choose 1000 random numbers 1-30,000,000 and test him if he can write the digits in the relevant 1000 places.
If he is going to fail then we have an evidence that he does not remember and if he is not going to fail then he probably cheats by using a computer
because I do not believe that humans can remember the first 30,000,000 digits of pi.
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Re: Rybka 4 beaten blindfold by neurosurgeon
Here is the Chessbase version of the newsUri Blass wrote:proving that he does not remember 30 million digits of PI is easyAlbert Silver wrote:The problem is that the claims would need to be verified, and claiming they *were* verified is even more unbelievable than the claim they were done. Why?Graham Banks wrote:http://www.chessblog.com/2011/04/comput ... eaten.html
This one's for all humanity. Ukrainian Andrew Slyusarchuk, 39 years old, neurosurgeon by profession, has taken on Rybka-4 and beaten him(her/it) blindfold!
Nope, he's not a grandmaster (and doesn't intend to give Vishy Anand any competition). He says, he wanted to display to the world the power of the human mind. What a celebration for all of us!
Andrew was searched thoroughly for any hidden devices before the event. He says, he just learned it all up! He won with white then drew with black to win the match. Incidentally, Andrew plan a simul against 150 Grandmasters. By the way, Andrew specialises in improving memory technologies and knows by heart 20,000 books and 30 million digits of the pi.
Consider the claim he memorized 30 million PI numbers. It isn't so much that it is impossible, I wont judge that, but how one tests it. For example, as a mere reference, one digit per second, non-stop, 24h in 24, would take 347+ days. And so on.
choose 1000 random numbers 1-30,000,000 and test him if he can write the digits in the relevant 1000 places.
If he is going to fail then we have an evidence that he does not remember and if he is not going to fail then he probably cheats by using a computer
because I do not believe that humans can remember the first 30,000,000 digits of pi.
"Tactics are the bricks and sticks that make up a game, but positional play is the architectural blueprint."