I started playing online chess shortly after Marie and I moved back to Moku o Keawe (Hawaiʻi Island) back in June. I now have a 100-day streak going. I also have a 69-day streak on Chessiverse, whose bots I prefer to those on Chess.com. In addition to feeling more realistic and human-like, I like that they have the confirm button in bot games and live games, whereas Chess.com only has it in live games. I started playing online chess shortly after Marie and I moved back to Moku o Keawe (Hawaiʻi Island) back in June. I now have a 100-day…
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…