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Chess is a game of strategy, which is a reason you’ll never find me playing it. I’m more of a Checkers guy – and I suck at that, too. If you’re into Chess – and you use Twitter – you’ll love this new service I’ve found! ChessTweets is the newest type of correspondence chess. ChessTweets uses the Twitter API to send your chess moves remotely, allowing you to play against someone who is located a million miles away! You can use any of the Twitter clients to play, such as TweetDeck and Twhirl.

The ChessTweets Experiment wants to try to expand on the ideas intended by Kasparov back in 1999. ChessTweets has created the world’s first automated and objective machine. Can something like this learn to compete with the best players in the world? The Experiment thinks so, and is out to prove it.

ChessTweets asks the community to give their input on moves. They will then examine each and every person’s relative skill, and apply a formulated weight to every suggested move. This way, everyone plays an equal and important role in the game! A novice’s opinion will be just as vital as that of someone of expert level.

This is actually an excellent – and fun – idea. It’s going to be very interesting over coming months to watch this project grow, and to see what level the “mind” can reach.

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