Thunderbucket- I’m with you on this one. They lost me in the first shot when they used the famous blue marble photo from Apollo 17. Here’s the actual photo:

Ah, but can it handle a chandelier?

Yeah, but the fresher minds aren’t running for office. Just look what happened when the Tea Party threw out the old guard in Congress. All it accomplished was the lowest approval ratings ever.

...and naturally, Wolf Blitzer didn’t call her out on any of her bullshit. I guess because he knows that the cyber is so important.

Good point. Maybe not the best analogy.

I almost hit play. I almost did it. Then I decided that I’m not going to encourage this type of idiocy by giving this dude yet another “view”. I’m not trying to by all high-horsey or anything, it’s just that I’m filling my life with way too much dumb-shit-I-saw-online.

Ah. Sorry. Still, there’s plenty of people out there who think that chess mastery means some sort of innate aptitude for military strategy, and I don’t buy it.

I didn’t say I wasn’t impressed. I said I wasn’t sure why.

No, and I can’t play basketball as well as LeBron James either. It still wouldn’t impress me if he came over and dominated a neighborhood game of HORSE either.

Has it ever been conclusively proven that an aptitude in chess makes you a better military strategist? Was MacArthur a chess player? Napoleon? Ghengis Khan? Julius Caesar? Alexander the Great? Does the military employ chess masters as advisors?

I know this is directed at me, but I’m going to redirect it back at our Norwegian friend here. This feels like the chess equivalent of Ussain Bolt gloating about destroying the competition at the local charity fun-run. These players aren’t anywhere near his level and he knew it. Maybe that’s why this is bothering…

...but the implication is that the otherwise mundane task demonstrates the enormous potential for real world/practical application

There’s a cynical part of me that keeps thinking “why am I impressed that you can play a board game well?”

Your attempt to test the limits of Google’s AI couldn’t be more vague. Humans would have trouble with it. What kind of date spot are we talking about? Are you going out to dinner? To the movies? A romantic carriage ride around the park? A monster truck rally?

Isn’t this essentially kendo (and other similar martial arts)?

Russia is in Europe. It’s in Asia too, but it’s generally considered to be a European country.

Not necessarily. There’s been plenty of movies that have opened internationally and have still bombed.

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