Twitch Plays Chess Against A Grandmaster And Wins

The power of the hive mind shouldn t be a surprise to anyone by now, but for some reason I assumed chess was an exception. When the creators of official site> decided to promote their new game by pitting the chat stream of Twitch against British grandmaster Simon Williams, I shrugged and thought: well it s nice that they have graduated from Pokemon – assuming that they would be soundly trounced. The chess champion went on to win the first two games. But during the third, Twitch struck back and won.

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