Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Cheating in Chess

The Crown Game Affair « Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP: "Faye Dunaway is an Academy Award-winning actress who co-starred with the late Steve McQueen in the 1968 movie ‘The Thomas Crown Affair.’ She plays a freelance insurance fraud investigator, Vicki Anderson, who believes that millionaire playboy Thomas Crown is guilty of instigating a $2.6 million bank heist, but falls in love with him anyway. The most famous scene in the movie shows her both defeating and seducing Crown in a game of chess.

Today I write about the difficulty of detecting fraud at chess, and the role of statistical evidence."

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