well i can beat several average chess programs as well and i am a mediocre player, the point to learn games like chess or go is not to win the game, its to improve numberless of skills and having fun at the same time.

This post was edited by 2sexy4u on Sep 21 2014 08:11pm

Increased knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts (with a very large emphasis on science and analytical philosophy) as well as the development of practically relevant skills in modern society with an emphasis on future relevance (for example, computer programming). I guess that's a good start.



Look, I'm all for playing chess, I play myself and think it is fun and probably produces intellectual benefit, but I'm sure as shit not going to advocate forcing all students to play it.



Sure I'll have to redownload it since I reformatted my PC recently, I'll let you know when it's done.

This post was edited by Voyaging on Sep 21 2014 08:16pm

I should have specified that i was more talking about kids, being a teacher i know how important is to motivation is important for better results with them. More advanced school is another thing, someone who study in medicine should not need motivation but just concentrate to be efficient.

I think that's a good start but there needs to be education on how to interpret data. People shouldn't just watch fox news and then go around repeating what they heard. There should be a critical thought process going on asking why am I being fed this information and am I getting the complete and accurate story.

When you have significant amounts of 911 truthers and birthers you have a serious problem.

i am unsure if school should be mandatory at all, but i would put a game like chess or Go in priority before some other actual disciplines for 6-12 year old range (idk how you call that degree in english)

"Kids does not learn to play, they learn while playing"

This post was edited by 2sexy4u on Sep 21 2014 08:27pm

All set when you wanna play

1. c4

If u actually wanna do a game this probably isn't the place cause it'll get reaaaal spammy lol

Btw in case anyone's interested the game I played with duffman vs the chess engine went as follows:

duffman was white, engine was black

1.g3 e5
2.e4 Nc6
3.Bh3 d5
4.Bxc8 Rxc8
5.Qg4 Nf6
6.Qh4 Nd4
7.Na3 Bxa3
8.bxa3 Nxc2+
9.Kd1 Nxa1
10.Bb2 dxe4
11.Bxa1 Qd3
12.Bxe5 Qb1+
13.Ke2 Qb5+
white resigns

For people who make threads like this, school would be a waste of resources and would be a negative for society, for everyone else it should be mandatory though.

aye that was a quick one, ill pm you if i can find the time to get raped by your program

Na3 is a terrible move but white was already in big trouble

This post was edited by 2sexy4u on Sep 22 2014 07:02am