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Submission + - A Computer Program to Detect Possible Cheating in Chess (nytimes.com)

jeffrlamb writes: "Cheating in live chess matches — fueled by powerful computer programs that play better than people do, as well as sophisticated communication technologies — is becoming a big problem for world championship chess.
Kenneth W. Regan is attempting to construct a mathematical proof to see if someone cheated, the trouble is that so many variables and outliers must be taken into account. Modeling and factoring human behavior in competition turns out to be very difficult."

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Heuristics are bug ridden by definition. If they didn't have bugs, then they'd be algorithms.

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