Elon Musk Engages in Heated Social Media Debate with Chess.com
A public exchange on X (formerly Twitter) between Elon Musk and the official Chess.com account has gained attention. The debate began with Musk asserting that chess will eventually be fully solved by computers, similar to checkers. Chess.com countered by highlighting the immense complexity of the game, citing the Shannon number to illustrate the vast number of possible positions. The interaction escalated as Musk dismissed the account's representative as an "intern," to which Chess.com clarified that the individual is a full-time employee. The exchange concluded with Chess.com quipping about the speed of their responses.
How does one "solve" a board game?
JFC, does that douchebag really have nothing better to do. Like, I don't know, PARENTING HIS KIDS? I am so tired of him. Kim Kardashian for nerds.
What am I seeing here? Guy full of himself lost game and is now butthurt?
Rules of engagement with attention whore is not to engage
I love that the "intern" is correct and Musk is not (look up the Shannon number and bear in mind this is a conservative estimate for games up to 40 turn pairs and does include moves that would make no sense but ARE legal). 20 seconds of googling could have avoided that, but not f
You don't need to solve for every possible chess board position, only up to the last 10 moves, which is practically solved. Stranded openings to get you close to there are also solved. The only thing that isn't solved is the "I'm going to do stupid shit and hope for the best".
dude is such an insufferable douche-nozzle
Can I come to your party please?
ok, so computers will solve all chess moves. Great, then what?
I have no clue what's the right order of the messages in this conversation.