{"id":46443,"date":"2016-05-11T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=46443"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:39:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:39:41","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-games-got-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-games-got-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: What Game&#8217;s Got the Most Moves?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/wobble-chess-set?source=blog_uk051116\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-46444 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/16834_uk051116.jpg\" alt=\"16834_uk051116\" width=\"650\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a>\u201cA computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2013 Emo Philips<\/p>\n<p>Most amateurs who\u2019ve tried playing chess can agree on one thing: the basic rules aren\u2019t hard to follow, but learning to play well is incredibly difficult. There\u2019s a reason that the \u201cgame of kings\u201d is associated with mind-bending strategic thinking, MENSA-level IQs, and supercomputers: the Shannon number\u2014a calculation of all the possible iterations of moves in games of chess. Calculated by mathematician and cryptographer Claude Shannon in 1950 for a study on teaching a computer to play chess, the Shannon number is between 10^111 and 10^123. Incredibly, that\u2019s substantially larger than the number of atoms in the known universe\u2014a mere 10^81. It\u2019s no wonder the game is a nail-biting brain teaser.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus: also in 1950, Shannon invented Theseus, a magnetic mouse. Named for the maze-running hero of Greek mythology, Theseus was programmed to \u201clearn\u201d to navigate mazes, and may be the first rudimentary form of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/wobble-chess-set?source=blog_uk051116\" target=\"_blank\">Wobble Chess Set <\/a>| $250<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.\u201d \u2013 Emo Philips&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":46444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[623,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47110,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46443\/revisions\/47110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}