chess-playing animals: their own titles?

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sapientdust

We all know there is very little, if any, relationship between chess and intelligence (<insert joke about the forums here>). In fact, some non-human animals have been known to play a decent game of chess, and chimps can beat humans at some feats of memory. There is also a company that employs non-human primates for contract programming.

This all raises an important question with regards to animals and chess: should animals play in their own tournaments, since they're not quite at the human level yet, and should they have their own titles like CGM for Chimp Grandmaster? They might not be playing at the HGM level anytime soon, but surely the Fischers and Polgars among the chimps, elephants, huskies, and other chess-playing non-humans deserve some recognition.

zborg

This thread is about as profound as your contributions to --

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/true-or-false-chess-is-a-draw-with-best-play-from-both-sides

Your mindless prejudice shines brightly in both threads.

Good luck with this one, too.

P.S.  There's a chicken in NYC who can probably beat you at Tic Tac Toe.  Compare the thread cited above.

macer75

I bet that chicken can't beat me. I've beaten some of the best tic tac toe engines in the world.

QueenTakesKnightOOPS

My cat is a big Bobby Fisher fan ....... well anything with the word fish in it for that matter, his favorite opening is the Fried Liver Attack

sapientdust
zborg wrote:

This thread is about as profound as your contributions to --

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/true-or-false-chess-is-a-draw-with-best-play-from-both-sides

Your mindless prejudice shines brightly in both threads.

Good luck with this one, too.

P.S.  There's a chicken in NYC who can probably beat you at Tic Tac Toe.  Compare the thread cited above.

I'm not sure what motivates your post here, in a joke thread that makes no serious points, where there's no mention of science or mathematics or rationality or game theory or any of the other topics that reliably trigger your insecurities and ignorant polemic.

Anyway, your predictable responses are tiresome, and they never add anything to the discussion, so welcome to my block list.