Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 12:27:51 01/31/03
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On January 31, 2003 at 15:10:01, Peter Fendrich wrote: >On January 31, 2003 at 14:13:33, andrew tanner wrote: > >> I just watched an interesting program about chimps with Allen Alda called >>Scientific American Frontiers. What they didn't address though, is that >>although chimps are very smart and share many human-like characteristics, can >>they play chess? > >I'm not sure of the exact definition of a chimp but I know about a few that at >least are very close and they play chess... :-) > >/Peter My cousing has a 7 years old chimp that saw me and mine friend playing chess 10 months ago and he showed interest, I have spent about 6 months so far and all that I have accomplished is to show him how to move every pieces. The funny thing is that he sometimes confuse the bishop with the pawn and move the bishop as if it is a pawn and vise versa. It is very hard to teach him basic Opening Ideas, since he places the knight on the edge of the board and only agree to take the move back and place it on the correct square Nf3 or Nc3 if I show him a banana. I have never mentioned this to nobody besides my friend, cousing and family. Most of the time a chimp imitates you on whatever you are doing or does it for an exchange of a banana. Pichard.
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