Crowd Sourced Chess Match - Grandmaster vs. The Crowd
There are certainly a lot of ways to tap the wisdom of crowds, but CrowdChess is really doing some interesting work matching up chess grand master Gawain Jones against the crowd. While I’m an obvious proponent of using the wisdom of crowds, I’m not sure that the wisdom of crowds will work in chess. Chess requires such an all encompassing strategy and there is no one right answer. You have to understand your opponent and their intentions in order to do well. I have a feeling that the crowd won’t be able to do this very well. However, it will definitely be interesting to watch.
Techcrunch also pointed out that this had been done previously:
Crowdsourced chess matches against well-known figures are nothing new. In 1999, MSN Gaming Zone held “Kasparov versus The World”, a four month long chess match that Kasparov called “the greatest game in the history of chess.” The winner? Kasparov, after 62 moves.