Ep 76: Fake Winners & Sore Losers
NB: I neglected to clarify that the other Brad Leithauser essay, The Space of One Breath, was not about the Fifth World Chess Championship but rather the Fifth World Computer Chess Championship. Great essay!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Body Politic by Brian Platzer
– Kasparov Beats Deep Thought by Brad Leithauser
– The Space of One Breath by Brad Leithauser
– The If I Speak I Am in Big Trouble Meme
– Robots Are Writing Poetry, and Many People Can’t Tell the Difference by Carmine Starnino
– Elon Musk’s Tweet re Anal Chess Cheating
– My delightful former student the violin prodigy, Amy Oh (@lankyhunchback on TikTok)
– Bobby Fischer’s legendary game against Donald Byrne (The Game of the Century)
– Six-Figure Artworks, by a Fifth Grader by Alex Hawgood
– Of Gods and Machines by Stephen Marche
– Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
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