Did Chess Ace Hans Niemann Cheat? A Design Detection Poser

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On this ID the Future, mathematician William Dembski and host Eric Anderson explore whether design detection tools shed any light on the recent chess scandal involving world chess champion Magnus Carlsen and American grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann. Did Niemann cheat in a match where he beat Carlson, as some have claimed? There is no smoking gun in the case, so how might one determine if cheating occurred? At first glance the problem might seem far removed from the design detecting rules and tools Dembski laid out in his Cambridge University Press monograph The Design Inference. But actually there is some intriguing overlap. Is there a way to dig into the chess data and determine whether Niemann secretly used a computer chess engine to Read More ›

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0:00.0	I.
0:02.0	I D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to I. D. the Future. I'm Eric Anderson and on today's episode we'll listen to the
0:16.6	second half of my conversation with Dr. William Dembski. Previously Demsky shared
0:21.3	information about his recent work in education and the critical
0:24.7	principle of the conservation of information which refutes the Darwinist hope that evolution can
0:29.2	provide a free lunch.
0:31.2	We now pick up the conversation discussing the recent allegations of cheating that rock the professional chess community and how
0:36.8	Dembski's work on the design inference relates to this recent news.
0:40.4	Well good, well let's turn to chess for a minute.
0:43.0	So I follow chess pretty closely.
0:44.8	I know you used to play a little bit as well,
0:47.1	but I try to follow professional chess relatively closely.
0:49.9	So I was actually watching the Sinkfield Cup
0:52.0	and the game in particular between World Champion Carlson
0:54.5	and Hans Neiman at the time.
0:56.6	So saw some of the reactions to that and for people, maybe some of our listeners aren't aware,
1:01.0	chess is a big deal now.
1:02.2	I mean there's enough money in it that
1:03.6	top players can support themselves playing chess. There's lots of other
1:06.7	people involved in coaching and commentary and streaming and analyzing and
1:10.2	working for companies. One of the largest is chess.com and and I understand
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