Could an animal play chess?
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I saw a video where a bonobo named Kanzi learnt how to play Minecraft and beat the ender dragon (motivated by rewards), and can understand over 3,000 English words, could it understand chess and if there are already chess games played by animals , where can I find then
Mar 1, 2024
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Very interesting. Chess seems pretty abstract, but maybe something less complicated as a starter-game, and work up to some form of chess? I’ve seen television programs about some very clever birds. Macaws, parrots, and the like. I bet they could learn tic-tax-toe for instance. Any instances of animals playing games on their own for fun? This is an interesting question.
Too complex for animals.
Mar 1, 2024
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Someone taught a dog how to move chess pieces and to distinguish each piece.
Some of the intelligent birds are definitely able to "learn" the moves but we have no way to communicate with them, which is a problem with any abstract learning.
Mar 1, 2024
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siddirocks wrote:
Too complex for animals.
As an animal, I ask "are you sure?"
Mar 1, 2024
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Pazflorencia wrote:
My opinion is: animals can't play chess because they can't think!
Explain Polly want a cracker
Every heard of a cat called "Mittens"
Thing is there are much simpler games than chess and I'm not aware of any animal that has been successfully taught one of them. I think someone has shown crows are able to play tic-tac-toe.
Funnily enough if apes were able to play chess or something similar, they might be scarily good in some aspects of it, bullet maybe. Realistically only checkers would seem doable at the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXP8qeFF6A
I feel like monkeys could
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