Episode 32 11/24/2022

A Good Chess Cheater Might Never Be Caught

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/10/hans-niemann-chess-cheating-artificial-intelligence/671799/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pocket_hits&utm_campaign=POCKET_HITS-EN-DAILY-RECS-2022_10_29&sponsored=0&position=7&scheduled_corpus_item_id=168d95bf-1599-46b1-b1a6-5e80b3e4954a

#necessary N-E-C-E-S-S-A-R-Y

that is needed for a purpose or a reason

1. If your cell phone doesn’t work, it may be necessary to buy a new one.
2. Sometimes a player will be in a position where a given move is clearly necessary to avoid losing.

#Calculate C-A-L-C-U-L-A-T-E

to use numbers to find out a total number, amount, distance, etc.

1. We haven’t really calculated the cost of the vacation yet.
2. Different engines prefer different moves, and the same program will change its suggestions depending on how many steps ahead you ask it to calculate.

#distinguish D-I-S-T-I-N-G-U-I-S-H

to recognize the difference between two people or things

1. At what age are children able to distinguish between right and wrong?
2. The site brings in human chess experts to do a move-by-move analysis to distinguish between reasonably good and impossibly good play. 

#boast B-O-A-S-T

to talk in a way that shows you are too proud of something that you have or can do

1. She is always boasting about how wonderful her children are.
2. The website’s “chief chess officer” boasted of having used a very large number of online games to design a sort of “DNA crime scene analysis for every chess player in the world.”

#approach A-P-P-R-O-A-C-H

a way of dealing with somebody/something; a way of doing or thinking about something such as a problem or a task

1. We need to adopt a new approach to the problem.
2. This approach has not turned up any evidence that the player cheated in over-the-board chess.