How can you tell if you're playing against a computer?

How can you tell if you're playing against a computer?

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rain

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How can you tell if the person you're playing against is using a chess engine, verses actually playing themselves? What's the difference between how a really good human player plays and a computer? Also, how long would it take for you to tell that your opponent's using an engine?

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Originally posted by vivify
How can you tell if the person you're playing against is using a chess engine, verses actually playing themselves? What's the difference between how a really good human player plays and a computer? Also, how long would it take for you to tell that your opponent's using an engine?
How can you tell if the person you're playing against is using a chess engine, verses actually playing themselves?

Look for the inability to spell "eventually".

rain

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Originally posted by Green Paladin
How can you tell if the person you're playing against is using a chess engine, verses actually playing themselves?

Look for the inability to spell "eventually".
or a schizophrenian inclination to see words that aren't actually there.

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Originally posted by vivify
How can you tell if the person you're playing against is using a chess engine, verses actually playing themselves?
The spelling is correct... but you're singing the wrong verse. In short... people "think" the game mods here use top 3 engine matchup rates... at least as a starting point.

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Originally posted by vivify
or a schizophrenian inclination to see words that aren't actually there.
Hint: Try around the middle of page one.

h

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Get a life green paladin, the guy is asking a simple question and you budge in like a stupid fool to derail the question at hand. Why should a person be judged by their spelling? A lot of people cannot spell, who are probably way smarter than you.

h

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I think nothing more than logic can presume if your playing a machine on here, using your own instinct, sometimes it is just obvious.

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Syver Yurt TC

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...and you're a stirling example.

skeeter

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Originally posted by skeeter
...and you're a stirling example.

skeeter
sterling example skeety,

Stirling is a place in Scotland, with a castle over looking the battlefields of
Bannockburn, whence Edward the II was vanquished and sent 'hame', to think again,
1314.

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
sterling example skeety,

Stirling is a place in Scotland, with a castle over looking the battlefields of
Bannockburn, whence Edward the II was vanquished and sent 'hame', to think again,
1314.
That's sent "home". And I'm not wearing any "troosers".

rc

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Originally posted by thaughbaer
That's sent "home". And I'm not wearing any "troosers".
your typing on the Pc in the bud? eeew

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
your typing on the Pc in the bud? eeew
Indeed I am not. I've just come down from the Isle of Skye, I’m no very big and I'm awful shy. And the lassies shout when I go by, "Thaughbaer where’s your troosers ?"

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Originally posted by thaughbaer
Indeed I am not. I've just come down from the Isle of Skye, I’m no very big and I'm awful shy. And the lassies shout when I go by, "Thaughbaer where’s your troosers ?"
Lol, just watch wee willy winky dont get caught in the DVD tray that's all. Here we
have a different rendering a purely Scots word, breeks with a hard k sound, which i
think comes from breeches, although i have not checked the etymology and if anyone
complains about the lack of chess content i recommend, 1.e4 best by test.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/ulsterscots/words/breeks

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Originally posted by skeeter
...and you're a stirling example.

skeeter
Skeeter, your pathetic man/woman, whatever ever you are, maybe a bit of both. You are the lowest form of a human forum poster known to my intellectual mind.

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Originally posted by hintjul
Skeeter, your pathetic man/woman, whatever ever you are, maybe a bit of both. You are the lowest form of a human forum poster known to my intellectual mind.
dude, dont let it stress you, relax and feel easy 🙂