Thread: World Chess Championship 2018

Caruana missed a forced mate in 30 moves with 68...Bh4 in game 6 which would have given him the lead in the 2018 championship challenge to the indomitable Magnus Carlsen according to Norwegian supercomputer Sesse.

Can you spot it?

https://www.chess.com/news/view/worl...impossible-win

Don't worry none of the grand masters could figure it out either even after it had been explained to them.

If computers are so far ahead of humans in chess. How long before they take over the world?

Only 4 games left out of 12 now and still tied at 4 all.


World Chess Championship Game 6: Caruana Misses 'Impossible' Win

It has been 16,878 days since an American has won a game in an undisputed world championship match (Spassky vs Fischer, game 21, Aug. 31, 1972). And since the top American is not a supercomputer, it will be at least two more.

In today's round six of the 2018 world chess championship, Fabiano Caruana pressed in a piece-for-three-pawns ending, but missed an incredibly opaque forced win against Magnus Carlsen.

Yes, the Norwegian supercomputer "Sesse" announced mate in 30, but even top grandmaster commentators couldn't understand all the complexities of the missed opportunity.

I sat about 12 feet from Kasparov and Karpov when they played at the Park Hotel in their title match.

^ Was that on the Doctor's recommendation as a cure for insomnia?

Originally Posted by Troy

^ Was that on the Doctor's recommendation as a cure for insomnia?

It was a unique moment in history. Never before had three such great players sat so near to each other.

^ Oh yes, Maggie was there as well, at least for the opening ceremony.

Seriously though, that was a tense battle...but too advanced for a mere club player like me.

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Originally Posted by Looper

Yes, the Norwegian supercomputer "Sesse" announced mate in 30, but even top grandmaster commentators couldn't understand all the complexities of the missed opportunity.

Why is this surprising, it's a supercomputer?

Like watching paint dry.

Not a master though I know what p-K4 means, but mate in 30 means with best play by the opponent; and if the grand masters couldn't see it, mate would come sooner.

Originally Posted by jabir

I know what p-K4 means

Do they still use that? I thought everyone used coordinates A-H and 1-8.

Originally Posted by can123

I sat about 12 feet from Kasparov and Karpov when they played at the Park Hotel in their title match.

Even Kasparov lost against a computer, big blue I think it was called.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Do they still use that? I thought everyone used coordinates A-H and 1-8.

I noticed that lately, but was weaned on the old notation system. More efficient the modern way.

Originally Posted by bobo746

Like watching paint dry.

Originally Posted by Dragonfly94

Even Kasparov lost against a computer, big blue I think it was called.

IBM Deep Blue. That was back in the 90s and Kasparov was almost in tears. Since then computers have moved into their own stratosphere and can find forced mates that no human could ever see like the one in round 6.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Why is this surprising, it's a supercomputer?

Well it actually still takes a lot of skill to program a good chess computer as the search space of all possible moves is far beyond anything that any computer could even theoretically be capable off so significant skill is involved in writing the program to narrow the searchspace.

Originally Posted by Dragonfly94

big blue I think it was called.

Yes, almost. Deep Blue. Big Blue was one of my fave movies about free diving.

I beat a naughts and crosses computer once when I was a kid.
It was on display in the science museum in Sydney sometime in the 1960s...

The way it was programmed was to learn from its errors....
So when it was first turned on for the day, it was easy to beat once, but you'd never beat it again.

Carlsen offers a draw in a favourable position in the 12th classical game in order to take the final to a speed chess play-off and the gamble wins with him cleaning up 3-0 in the tie-break.



The Norwegian arrived first.



And skittled the merkin pretender in short order.