{"id":28285,"date":"2013-10-15T04:34:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T04:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-heavy-use-of-computer-analysis-has-pushed-the\/"},"modified":"2013-10-15T04:34:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T04:34:25","slug":"the-heavy-use-of-computer-analysis-has-pushed-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-heavy-use-of-computer-analysis-has-pushed-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The heavy use of computer analysis has pushed the game itself in new directions. The machine doesn\u2019t care about style or patterns or hundreds of years of established theory. It counts up the values of the chess pieces, analyzes a few billion moves, and counts them up again. (A computer translates each piece and each positional factor into a value in order to reduce the game to numbers it can crunch.) It is entirely free of prejudice and doctrine and this has contributed to the development of players who are almost as free of dogma as the machines with which they train. Increasingly, a move isn\u2019t good or bad because it looks that way or because it hasn\u2019t been done that way before. It\u2019s simply good if it works and bad if it doesn\u2019t. Although we still require a strong measure of intuition and logic to play well, humans today are starting to play more like computers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2010\/feb\/11\/the-chess-master-and-the-computer\/\">The Chess Master and the Computer by Garry Kasparov | The New York Review of Books<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/slavin.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">slavin<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heavy use of computer analysis has pushed the game itself in new directions. The machine doesn\u2019t care about style or patterns or hundreds of years of established theory. It counts up the values of the chess pieces, analyzes a few billion moves, and counts them up again. (A computer translates each piece and each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-28285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7md","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}