Category: Chess

Fruit Fly Brain vs. Chess.com’s Martin bot

Every once in a while, I come across something that is so “what sick mind thought this up?” that it turns out to be a combination of WFT moments and hysterical laughter. From Instagram: What if a fruit fly’s brain could play chess? FliPy is a fascinating simulation that uses the mapped connectome of a male Drosophila melanogaster — the common fruit fly — to make chess moves. Levy Rozman (aka Gotham Chess) pitted FliPy against Martin, a stupendously inept bot on chess.com. You just can’t make this stuff up, but it is hysterical, as is his narration of the…

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