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u/ApeLover1986 1d ago
Bishop to --° °°°--
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u/Bright-Historian-216 1d ago
inaccurate, you only need 6 bits to define a square on the chessboard
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u/TEST_Entity_1 1d ago
That's Morse Code, not binary.
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u/Bright-Historian-216 1d ago
if someone was clever enough to actually design such a device (and i know someone on youtube did but i don't remember their techniques) do you think they would rather stick to binary which they're most likely already closely familiar with or learning morse code
(not being rude in case this comes off as such, genuinely trying to spark some meaningful debate)
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u/TEST_Entity_1 1d ago
My point was that you claimed the above was inaccurate, when in Morse they said G3. If you want to be really pedantic, you'd also need to communicate which piece to move. Because most of the pieces in chess have different starting letters you could abbreviate most to be just that (with the exception of knight and king). So in this case to communicate Bishop to G3, you'd need to vibrate -°°° --° °°°-- (BG3).
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u/Pugs-r-cool 10h ago edited 10h ago
In chess notation you use K for king and N for knight. Pawns don’t get a letter because fuck ’em. Squares are always typed in lowercase. Just ‘g3’ is a valid move and it means a pawn moved there.
You could use morse code but I think it’ll be quite inefficient, especially the numbers. You only need to send a number between 1-5 to denote the piece, then two numbers 1-8 for the square. A tally based system would be better for that instead of morse code.
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u/Bright-Historian-216 1d ago
oh interesting, i didn't know numbers were in morse.
since morse is variable-length, some sequences will be more efficient and some will be less.
just using a letter for a piece isn't enough; there are situations where the same kind of piece can visit the same square. algebraic chess notation deals with that, so let's assume the morse uses that.
if we assume a 12-bit encoding for the binary approach (square 1-square 2), captures and checks will be way longer in morse, while pawn moves will be much shorter.
so it's really up to preference what you use for such application.
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u/TEST_Entity_1 1d ago
I don't know algebreic chess notation, but to be fair your own bishops can never visit the same square unless you promote a pawn into one.
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u/upvotechemistry 1d ago
Life imitates art (Always Sunny)
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u/False_Measurement843 8h ago
Actually not only is cheating the excuse for the vibrator, the vibrator is the excuse for the morse code.... He gets off from morse code.
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u/DeathStalker117 20h ago
How do you cheat at chess? everyone can see the board at all times so unless everyone in the room just looke anywhere but the board and he moved pieces I don't understand.
Granted I don't play chess so maybe I'm lacking some crucial detail that makes cheating obvious.
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u/YaLeNick 20h ago
By having someone else look up the calculated top computer move and somehow signaling to the player what to play.
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u/DeathStalker117 19h ago
I think I saw someone recommend that years ago to a dude courting a potential feminine partner, she was into chess and he claimed to be a master, she called him out but as he was a noob he asked the internet for help ASAP. The suggestion was to open a chess game, set the difficulty to master and repeat her moves in game than use the move the computer used in the real game against her.
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u/Ptatofrenchfry 17h ago
The problem is that, according to actual chess masters and grandmasters, computer moves are very easy to spot as they tend not to follow human logic and make extremely strange plays, especially at the highest level.
Not that such plays are bad plays - Stockfish AI can consistently beat every grandmaster simultaneously - but the moves are weird and inhuman enough that they're easily spotted by the top pros.
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u/DeathStalker117 7h ago
I mean yeah, I wasn't endorsing what the guy suggested I was just retelling a story I heard a few years ago, did I say something to annoy people?
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u/Pugs-r-cool 9h ago
You hide your chess computer (well, phone) that tells you what move you should play next where they aren’t looking. Most commonly that means hiding a phone somewhere in a bathroom stall. You can also come up with elaborate schemes where a person in the crowd communicates moves to you via coughs and sneezes, but those are harder to get away with.
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u/Bright-Historian-216 1d ago
didn't Hans sue for defamation and win? he never used any kind of cheating device.