chess primitives

I read once an article in a management magazine about an experiment with two female chimpansees. The one was trained to learn the
chess game (meaning to learn to apply the rules in making moves), the other one checkers. The chess ape was quite succesful: apart
from castling, en passant and promotion, she could do all moves, and liked capturing pawns and pieces a lot. Not so with the checkers,
the ape did not understand how to capture by jumping over the enemy piece, and could not play a game.

What does that tell us? That female apes my beat deep blue one day? Or that chess is a primitive game compared to checkers? Or do
some cheaters in RHP use in fact their pets to make the good moves?

were male apes considered too stupid for the experiment I wonder. ;>

no, they were all busy chasing other female apes, a gameof strategy and tactics far more challenging than chess or checkers 🙂

And I thought they were being trained for politics.

errr, the female apes or the male apes?

What's the difference? Politics often enough looks like a game of
chess. Maybe, just maybe, we are intelligent enough to play chess,
instead of politics. However, in the latter there's a lot of cheating too.
But are there already programmes to make their moves?

An incredibly challenging game, there being no discernible set of
rules, expectations of rational behavior, etc. Thank God I could play it
well enough to convince one to marry me!

Just noticed we are right together on the rating board.

Dave

Maybe the checkers learning chimp was too bored by an inferior game
to learn it!

I only say this because I know that in general the nonhuman primates
are quite good at strategy games! After all, I run all my moves past
my good friends Koko and Washoe, who are far better chess tacticians
than I. Of course one has to interpret, which can be tricky, and I think
occasionally I've misunderstood there generally sound advice.

Queen queen bishop take bad. Lose apple bad bad.
Rook Queen take bannana good.
Knight Queen King trap. many banana many good.
Michael play like black bug play checkers. No banana. No apple.

FYI, don't ask a cat for chess advice. Oh sure, they understand the
game with exquisite subtlety, but they prefer laying on top of the
computer monitor, staying warm, chortlling at one's poor chess ability.
Willing to point out your blunders after the fact, but no help in the
heat of battle.

How did you train your kitty to stay off your chess board, and not to
claw the pieces around? ;>

I could go so many places with this one.

But I won't...hehehehe

Dave

it is well documented, that femails do not have the same sleep
patterns as men.they sleep lighter,for baby.
men can concentrate.they sleep deeper.
lyn.

Most women I know can concentrate just fine. The only real difference
is the makeup/plumage deal...well..the rib and the 26 muscles in
humans too.

Dave

Plus my better half sleeps like a rock...me...I sleep like a box of 'em
hehehe