Magnus Carlsen played a game of freestyle chess against 143,000 people (who voted on what moves to make) and was forced into a draw. I’m surprised at the outcome…I didn’t think the wisdom of the crowds would work in a situation like this.
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Because the crowd are patzers who play to block, not to win.
I was thinking the same. Not a strategy to win… but rather to not lose.
Don’t know why not. It’s mostly what’s called AI, though I go along with Ted Chiang’s Applied Statistics. Instead of a pool of games — and thus players — from the past, it’s a pool of contemporary players.
My guess is that a lot of the 'players' used a (computer) Chess-app to figure out 'their' next move. A lot of people *will* cheat if there is no oversight — it is human nature.
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