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HUMAN VS MACHINE
First of all - all credits goes to Sir Roger Penrose...
He's looking for humans that can see the solution for this chess puzzle to learn more about their brains and about brains at all...
The point is that machines will give up this game, while humans can see a draw for white...
Do you able to force a draw?
I tried to put here an ASCII chess board, but CP screwed it... so here a link to an image...
chess-puzzle.png (1,095.6 KB)
HINT: Notice that even black has a huge advantage in pieces the only ones can move are those 3 bishops at the middle-left. So this is a game of white king against 3 black bishops on a smaller board (there are places king can't go)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 19-Mar-17 8:06am.
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I know the king can make infinite diagonal moves and never be in check.
Should all three bishops leave the current diagonal, then the pawn at B6 could potentially move to take a promotion and threaten black king with mate.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nice one... And definitely not the easiest!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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True. But he can even allow check. If the king later is checked (e.g. on g1) he can never be mated.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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That's interesting... Let black check the king to break the self-defensive formation of the 3 bishops and force draw or even go for a mate... I have to check it later...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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"'Let' black check the king"?
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Yes. To break the defensive formation of the bishops...
Check this game[^] (the game actually happened and not fabricated)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm not sure what wrong with that... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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0) How can white stop it?
1) Why would black want to do so?
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0) All white have to do is stay on white. In that case black can not check it...
1) That's a real problem. Black (an engine based on mathematical calculations) always to the 'best' move that improves its chances to win. Check white is one of them, and black will do it even it is somehow unintelligent (it of course depends on the level of the engine).
There are two ways to gain draw in this situation and one to win it... The simple draw is by 50-moves-rule is always there, the other draw and the win is mostly depend on the intelligence level of the engine (the errors it makes)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So I have been assigned a new role - modernize some old Java EE applications. 
I need a new job now
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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What does "modernize" really mean these days? A new coat of paint perhaps?
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Slacker007 wrote: What does "modernize" really mean these days? A new coat of paint perhaps?
Ofcourse that - CSS (read: cuss) changes. Replacing old JS with new ones. And update struts libraries due to this scary CVE[^]
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Modernization: Making not so technical people boast about version of software product they are using. There can still be COBOL under those fancy wrappers. But not many open those wrappers.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Slacker007 wrote: What does "modernize" really mean these days?
Change all colours to shades of light pastel blue, and take out as much graphical detail as you can.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't forget to require a constant cloud connection to make sure you're licensed to use the software. Yes even especially if the software itself doesn't connect to the outside world.
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Oh, don't say that! My blood pressure can't take it!
Sick, sick, sick, sick SICK! of pointless, irritating "reminders" from win server and fruggin-awful-antivirus-server that I have to connect uber-high-security, air-gapped physical servers to the Internet, because they have to upload information that they are absolutely not entitled to and are never going to get!
It used to be that if someone sold you something, you were treated with respect, because you were the customer, and they were grateful for your patronage.
But if you buy software, these days, you have to treat the vendor like he's your lord and master.
It's got to stop. It's got to %#@&ing stop!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"modernize" in broad or narrow sense ? 
Perhaps modernizing in a broad sense would be a time saver ?
Cheers
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I'll put "repainting the app to look modern" in the narrow sense.
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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This is arriving to our tv this week.
The big question. Is it worth watching, or should I just pass on it?
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