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Humans vs. Machines: We're Winning Because We're More Fun to Shoot At

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Aichesss_3 Those interested in playing chess (or in the eventual domination of our kind by machines) may be interested in this page, where you can play the Shredder chess program hosted on the makers servers.  We've known for a while that the computers can kick our ass in this particular (and very importantly, non- violent) field of combat but this is the first program I've seen be so smug about it. The instructions point out that "even on 'hard' Shredder doesn't show his full capabilities. He is trying to provide an equal opponent for a human player on those levels."  The phrase 'puny fleshling' isn't explicitly said, but is pretty heavily implied.

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