Will technology ruin the game of chess?

If you wanted, you could say that steroids (almost) ruined baseball. Baseball survived with rigorous testing systems; chess (and technology/computers) is the same.

I hope you're right.

Get very angry and aggressive when people say steroids ruined stuff.

If anyone can give me houdini 3 ? Please hurry up

I do too. I think you can download houdini 3.

32 bit. Please hurry up

Computer intelligence has added a new way to review games.  If people cheat you are benefitting because you are playing against a stronger opponent.  Now it is up to you to review the game you lost and figure out how to become stronger.

But, if everybody can do that, wouldn't it defeat the advantage?

For the cheaters that use a computer for their matches: at some point you have to think to yourself, "why am I bothering to logon and sit in front of a screen only to let a computer play my moves for me?" Seems a little out of the way for no other reason than to see some stupid numbers next to your name get higher. 

Post game review is a different story...

I agree.

Technology has made life easier.

Not for everyone (Old people.)

still no one answering

It's like a nightmare, isn't it?

Technology on transportation has not ruined pleasat walking. . . Technology on fish canning has not ruined pleasat vacation river fishing . . And so on

On the other hnnd. technology on avionics instruments have ruined fascinating compass and stars navigation. .technology on computer´s graphics  have ruined that classical and lovely hand drawing and painting And so on.

But there still exist people who love to do things “naturally”  (and thanks Nature and God or that) so laying chess for the sake of chess will never die. . . no matter how much advanced are those software chess programs too much mentioned.

Remenber. Man made the computer, not the computer made the man.

NOTE

The chess program might give you the best move out of a million in any given moment, but could not know what is your main plan at the beginning of he game, so that it could (as  opponent) be prepared to ply.

Well. . . at least, that is what I think

Good point.

Is there some sort of suspicion that chess engines may be currently used in tournments for more than just preparing counter-intuitive opening possibilities, like someone with a accomplice who uses the engine and then communicates with the player through some sort of "mentalist" method (not "psychic", but the tricks used by them or shows)?

Or perhaps even something like having some sort of gadget that translates the engine's suggestion on a tactile Morse code/Braille system of sorts, and this gadget would be somewhere inside the player's pants or something. It could be just a receiver/transmitter of the Morse/Braille, or even carry the engine itself, if someone figures a way to have an unnoticeable input interface with the thing, which could even be a separate gadget that communicates via radio. Something like a 8x8 series of hidden buttons on the guy's pants, over the tigh, so as he just rests his hands over his tights, he can "type" the opponent's moves, just first and ending square (the engine would know the corresponding pieces as it's redoing the match), in what wouldn't be easy to distinguish from just normal fidgeting. That could also be the receiver end, perhap's it's easier to learn to feel some light needling on an 8x8 grid on your leg than to learn to feel Morse code, and Morse code itself.

It seems far fetched, but I'm not sure if it's something that wouldn't ever be tried. I'd not be surprised if in the near future there were some sort of airport security type of inspections for tournments, and even cavity searches depending on the prize/tournment level. 

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