yeah well duck face, I have better things to do like actual playing; maybe you should try it sometime before you pass judgement.
Chess and memory: the chicken experiment
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Have you ever tried teaching chess to rooks ?
@ Sitting-Duck: You have some great ideas and profound philosophical thoughts! Chess.com really needs to be led by someone like you. I hope you take over as soon as possible!
Nekhemevich wrote:
infamous troll thread...
True, but Sitting-Duck is an amusing troll, at least in my opinion, although I can understand why others would disagree.
My older brother Felix taught me chess so he could whoop me every game to stay in form. Then he'd pack up a bag with smelly fish heads and head off to the farm to play in chess tournaments hosted by the hens. Those hens were big into modern chess theory, they were quite good at endgames too. Felix didn't do really well in those tournaments, I think the smell of the fish helped him though, his openings were not good, he'd be in trouble from the start but got back into the games ok, the hens would usually win if they got him into an endgame though.
I could see what they were up to so I booked up, learned the Najdorf and Kings Indian. I knew the Poisoned Pawn to beyond move 20 and had the endgames sussed.
When I started playing in tournaments, I'd be well on top by the opening, then exchange off into won endgames. But if I had a tough middle game I'd run out of time on the clock.
I beat a human rated 2350 using my knowledge of the Najdorf with the minimum of fuss.
I retired on Christmas Day, since I feel no different to a chess hen.
Sitting-Duck wrote:
For now I am simply proving that you can teach any animal to play chess using memory alone. I think the barrier to overcome here is to accept chess is not this awesome mystical game only humans can master. It is a bitter pill to swallow when you have spent hours training and playing and someone suggests you can be beaten by a chicken, I believe in time it will become more widely accepted if more life forms could be included in the game.
Ah, but you haven't gotten the chicken (or any other animal) to master anything yet. If you're going to take down chess as a sport, you need to infiltrate FIDE from within. Train the pig, enter it in tournaments, and when it start to climb in rating, then people will start to believe you. I for one would welcome Grandmaster Spider-Ham (Google Spider-Ham right now. You're welcome). Then everyone in the world will respect the intelligence of farm animals everywhere. We won't stop eating them, though. I dont care what their ELO is, they're delicious, nutritious, and lower on the food chain. Natural selection is rough, am I right?
The amount of awesomeness in this thread is overwhelming 
I'm going to cry fowl.
@sittingduck, how bout you yell at your board to exchange the bishops for elephants, because it wasn't as if chess.com made up that rule, what if someone or their grandparents came from a country or their ancestors came from a country where the monarchs were cruel. ' i won't play chess because it has kings and queens, just realise that the world doesn't revolve around you and that others have their own opinions and the game isn't going to change. also, play blindfold setting on livechess.
My scientific method seems to be slightly above the reach of some posters. Not one to cause arguments and fighting I will not call them out by name and will refrain from telling them they are little more than base morons like so many other OPs would have done despite the level of resistance I am getting. The average chess game is about 25-30 moves at least half of which are book moves.If I can teach a mere chicken to play the first 16 moves perfectly it will be in a winning possition against about 90% of players here. That leaves the rest of the game where I will grant anything can happen. But what of a pig or a horse? Not to mention a chimpanzee. With a year ,some funding and a chimpanzee I believe a 2200+ rating is possible.
Jan 27, 2016
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I have a cochin hen that I just brought in from the outside.
She will peck the first move. Okay. She did it (good girl sweetie !)
Here it is:
(She actually pecked the DQ bishop first....but that was illegal.
Okay....the first to move is the one she will play. Go.
@Macer you could not be more correct. I have made several attempts to take over the site but sadly the tradition of backward thinking in the upper echelons has prevented me from even becoming a mod. That and the fact that some dude from New Zeeland or Australia keeps deleting my post or locking them. I will keep at it taking heart from the fact that they burnt Edison at the stake several times before he came up with the lightbulb which put an end to fire.
Goog lord Lola ! You have a cochin hen? Clearly you know something about chickens. I think it is hardly fair to play my trained rooster against a hen with no skill though, I suggest you get her to play against Nekhemevich...he has no skill either.
Jan 27, 2016
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Knowing roosters he'll be trying to do more than play chess w/ her.
You do know your chickens! perhaps you could post a pic of your hen?
@Tackypumpkin ...suffice to say your username pretty much sums up your delussions. Most people have no opinion at all to the point where they are mindless herd animals chained to their desks day in and day out praying the weekend will come sooner so they can escape from their miserable and pointless lives by drinking themselves into a stupor
Do you really live in the Canary islands?
Thank you Erik, whoever you are. I'm not a playboy millionaire either.