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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: Re: "self-styled philosophers"
Message-ID: <176@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 10:57:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 10:57:27 1986
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Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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>For example, in his recent article, he recounts an "experiment"
>he conducted to show that chessplayers do not use reasoning very
>much, but just play instinctively. This experiment consisted of
>an International Master playing against a weaker player. The IM
>was forced to add a sequence of numbers while playing, thus
>supposedly occupying his reasoning capability. The IM won anyway

I just repeated this experiment and I think he is right. I forced
my SUN to add sequences of numbers while playing chess with me and
I lost.

Here, do it yourself:

	main()
	{
		int i,j;

		for(;;) for(i=j=0; i < 10000 ; i++) j += i ;
	}
save this in file foo.c, compile with 'cc foo.c' and say:

	a.out & (runs it in the background)
	chesstool

it slows it down only a tad, barely noticeable, but I still keep losing!
AMAZING! my computer is human!

	-Barry Shein, Boston University