ONLINE CHESS TOURAMENT (winner gets 7 BTCs)

[jlb122784]

I am holding a Round-Robin Knock-Out Chess Tournament where the winner receives 7 BTCs, 2nd place receives 3 BTCs and 3rd place gets 1
BTC. Joining this contest will cost 0.25 BTCs and will take place in about 2 weeks on 8/21/13 and go for about 4-5 days.. If you have any questions or wish to sign up make sure you download skype and post your skype info here. As of now i have 11 people signed up and im going for around 30 more. Please send the 0.25 btcs to    1ARd2qwXUtTSHsuqVhQxBxGiMckpyT8mQa along with your skype info and or e mail address. My skype info is Whitemist84 if you have any questions or want to know more...i will start posting a list of people signed up as it gets closer to the date of the tournament..Thanks

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[jimbobway]

How to prevent cheating?

[zackclark70]

I am holding a Round-Robin Knock-Out Chess Tournament where the winner receives 7 BTCs, 2nd place receives 3 BTCs and 3rd place gets 1
BTC. Joining this contest will cost 0.25 BTCs and will take place in about 2 weeks on 8/21/13 and go for about 4-5 days.. If you have any questions or wish to sign up make sure you download skype and post your skype info here. As of now i have 11 people signed up and im going for around 30 more. Please send the 0.25 btcs to    1ARd2qwXUtTSHsuqVhQxBxGiMckpyT8mQa along with your skype info and or e mail address. My skype info is Whitemist84 if you have any questions or want to know more...i will start posting a list of people signed up as it gets closer to the date of the tournament..Thanks

                                                                                                                                              Whitemist84-skype
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if you were not so new here I would have given it a go

[adamstgBit]

How to prevent cheating?

download a good chess program set difficulty to VERY VERY HARD, copy your opponent moves, and copy the computers moves!

their is no way to prevent this kind of cheating...

[01BTC10]

How to prevent cheating?

download a good chess program set difficulty to VERY VERY HARD, copy your opponent moves, and copy the computers moves!

their is no way to prevent this kind of cheating...

There is already software that gives the best move for each situation.

[01BTC10]

I am holding a Round-Robin Knock-Out Chess Tournament where the winner receives 7 BTCs, 2nd place receives 3 BTCs and 3rd place gets 1

You mean the one who has a fastest cluster to run Rybka on wins 7BTC?

There is already software that gives the best move for each situation.

No, there isn't. You probably mistook chess for checkers.

What I found in 10 seconds:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/chess-problem
http://sourceforge.net/projects/popeye-chess

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_for_handling_chess_problems

[Vod]

I am holding a Round-Robin Knock-Out Chess Tournament where the winner receives 7 BTCs, 2nd place receives 3 BTCs and 3rd place gets 1
BTC. Joining this contest will cost 0.25 BTCs and will take place in about 2 weeks on 8/21/13 and go for about 4-5 days.. If you have any questions or wish to sign up make sure you download skype and post your skype info here. As of now i have 11 people signed up and im going for around 30 more. Please send the 0.25 btcs to    1ARd2qwXUtTSHsuqVhQxBxGiMckpyT8mQa along with your skype info and or e mail address. My skype info is Whitemist84 if you have any questions or want to know more...i will start posting a list of people signed up as it gets closer to the date of the tournament..Thanks

                                                                                                                                              Whitemist84-skype
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if you were not so new here I would have given it a go

Agreed.   All you are doing is sending 0.25btc to a person who could very likely run away with the coins.  Luckily no one has done it yet.
 
If the OP is serious, he/she will announce a third party trusted escrow to hold the funds.  Otherwise.....

[zackclark70]

I am holding a Round-Robin Knock-Out Chess Tournament where the winner receives 7 BTCs, 2nd place receives 3 BTCs and 3rd place gets 1
BTC. Joining this contest will cost 0.25 BTCs and will take place in about 2 weeks on 8/21/13 and go for about 4-5 days.. If you have any questions or wish to sign up make sure you download skype and post your skype info here. As of now i have 11 people signed up and im going for around 30 more. Please send the 0.25 btcs to    1ARd2qwXUtTSHsuqVhQxBxGiMckpyT8mQa along with your skype info and or e mail address. My skype info is Whitemist84 if you have any questions or want to know more...i will start posting a list of people signed up as it gets closer to the date of the tournament..Thanks

                                                                                                                                              Whitemist84-skype
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if you were not so new here I would have given it a go

Agreed.   All you are doing is sending 0.25btc to a person who could very likely run away with the coins.

If the OP is serious, he/she will announce a third party trusted escrow to hold the funds.  Otherwise.....

hopefully nobody is stupid enough to fall for it if it was just for fun I would play against anyone lol

[Vod]

You know, the OP is probably Joey....   

[adamstgBit]

There is already software that gives the best move for each situation.

No, there isn't. You probably mistook chess for checkers.

What I found in 10 seconds:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/chess-problem
http://sourceforge.net/projects/popeye-chess

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_for_handling_chess_problems

These programs are only guessing the moves based on heuristics. They don't find best moves, they only find good moves. There is a big difference.
It'll be some time before we will have programs that play perfectly, always using winning strategy.
Read about winning strategy in game's theory.

For checkers we have programs that you cannot win against, programs that always either win or draw.
And we have hardware capable enough to run them in reasonable time.

It will take few years/decades before we will have hardware capable enough to do this for chess.

can you beat a computer on set on "very hard" ?

[01BTC10]

Right, I thought given enough processing power that chess was a solved game. Now I'm reading that it's only partially solved.

Chess
Solved by retrograde computer analysis for all three- to six-piece, and some seven-piece endgames, counting the two kings as pieces. It is solved for all 3–3 and 4–2 endgames with and without pawns, where 5–1 endgames are assumed to be won with some trivial exceptions (see endgame tablebase for an explanation). The full game has 32 pieces. Chess on a 3×3 board is strongly solved by Kirill Kryukov (2004).[17] It has been speculated that solving chess may be impossible with current technology.[18]

[jlb122784]

This will be the second time ive done this..the first time was on pogo and with less people. This time im trying something a bit different i even have a few people to vouch for me from the last time i did this

[adamstgBit]

can you beat a computer on set on "very hard" ?

I loose to a computer set on "very easy"

lol me too!

[virtualfaqs]

Play over skype too. 
At least if someone cheats, they need to have good acting skills too.

[doof]

Battle of the bots!

[guoweang]

I would like to challenge anyone to a friendly (or wager) match of chess. I've been playing since a boy and really enjoy a good match. Have plenty of bitcoin to back me up.

Lets play!

[zackclark70]

I would like to challenge anyone to a friendly (or wager) match of chess. I've been playing since a boy and really enjoy a good match. Have plenty of bitcoin to back me up.

Lets play!

I would play a friendly game

[drawingthesun]

If you download the latest chess software, there are a few, and set them to max capability you will not win a set of matches against it.

The greatest players on Earth can win maybe 1 match of a set but still lose overall. One of the greatest chess players of modern times said a human will most likely never win a set against these computer programs and as time goes on the chance of a win against the current best computer is becoming more and more unlikely.

Chess is nowhere near solved, but no one here will be winning against one of these programs.

Chess for Btc is a terrible terrible idea no matter how good you think you are. (Unless its in real life under match conditions)

There may be a market for live streamed chess matches where people bet on certain players and can see the duke out on over the internet.