Some of you guys are awfully cynical- calling him a cheat or a fraud with little or no evidence. I think the video of him doing a back flip is very convincing. The blues improv was pretty impressive. His "relative" pitch performance is better than 99% of you could do. His pullups may not be regulation but I doubt most of us could come close. I haven't examined the others.
The chess algorithm development may not have worked. I am sceptical that it would ever work since it would require sustained mental gymnastics during the course of a game but it was still a fascinating attempt.
All in , I think he has a lot to be legitimately proud over.
No, that argument doesn't work. Because the reason I called him a fraud was not because the things he did wasn't impressive, I said very openly it was a good idea and it was impressive. But when he labeled them as almost impossible, and build such a hype around it, he was more building up his own ego than trying to inspire others. Do you really not see the difference there? Sure you Americans use so much hyperbolisms you've become insensitive to it. But that shows nothing less than the whole American culture having a fraudulent disposition. When you guys couldn't see how much of a fraud Hillary and Donald was, you sort of lost all respect in my book. This guy is just another American, to me, fits my view of American gullibility perfectly.
The WSJ video they published, with the music, and the interview build up, and the camera shots, it all pretended there was a real match between the two. The guy had a performance of a 900 player. Any one in this chat would have done a better job than him. It's just completely absurd that he is being taken seriously after this, and particularly by us chess players. At least we know what we're talking about here. We ow it to the world to announce that this whole match setup was a fraud, maybe it seems cynical to you but sometimes outing a trickster is the only right thing to do.
Let’s light up Change.org?
Yeah, that's gonna make a difference...
Some of you guys are awfully cynical- calling him a cheat or a fraud with little or no evidence. I think the video of him doing a back flip is very convincing. The blues improv was pretty impressive. His "relative" pitch performance is better than 99% of you could do. His pullups may not be regulation but I doubt most of us could come close. I haven't examined the others.
The chess algorithm development may not have worked. I am sceptical that it would ever work since it would require sustained mental gymnastics during the course of a game but it was still a fascinating attempt.
All in , I think he has a lot to be legitimately proud over.
No, that argument doesn't work. Because the reason I called him a fraud was not because the things he did wasn't impressive, I said very openly it was a good idea and it was impressive. But when he labeled them as almost impossible, and build such a hype around it, he was more building up his own ego than trying to inspire others. Do you really not see the difference there? Sure you Americans use so much hyperbolisms you've become insensitive to it. But that shows nothing less than the whole American culture having a fraudulent disposition. When you guys couldn't see how much of a fraud Hillary and Donald was, you sort of lost all respect in my book. This guy is just another American, to me, fits my view of American gullibility perfectly.
The WSJ video they published, with the music, and the interview build up, and the camera shots, it all pretended there was a real match between the two. The guy had a performance of a 900 player. Any one in this chat would have done a better job than him. It's just completely absurd that he is being taken seriously after this, and particularly by us chess players. At least we know what we're talking about here. We ow it to the world to announce that this whole match setup was a fraud, maybe it seems cynical to you but sometimes outing a trickster is the only right thing to do.
Let’s light up Change.org?