Musings on Chaturanga             Narasimhan Vijayaraghavan. Subramania Bharathiyar was joined by Va.Ve.Su. Iyer in Pondicherry, after 1906. With Aurobindo Ghosh, they formed an intellectual triumvirate of unparalleled intellect. Chess was often debated and discussed,  among the philosophical

 

Musings on Chaturanga

Narasimhan Vijayaraghavan

 

 

 

 

 

Subramania Bharathiyar was joined by Va.Ve.Su. Iyer in Pondicherry, after 1906. With Aurobindo Ghosh, they formed an intellectual triumvirate of unparalleled intellect. Chess was often debated and discussed,  among the philosophical topics primed on poetry, literature  and linguistics, though only Bharathi-VVS chess tangled  at Bharathi’s home on Eswaran Dharamarajan Koli Street. It appears that VVS was better on the chess board and Bharathi vowed to beat him one day.So, whenever time was on offer, Bharathi ‘practised’  with Kuvalai Kannan, whom he easily  trumped to earn ‘psychological boost’, as a writer mused.

 

Came the day that Bharathi eagerly anticipated. He billed it as a world championship. Invited a whole host of his friends ( his admirers,as the report runs). Bharathi teed up for the occasion,  in his very attire, but VVS was cool and indifferent. Bharathi was determined and so had parked his satellites around the board. With no Arbiter around, Bharathi was not ‘beyond distracting VVS and conveniently moved the coins to set up a win’. VVS was engrossed and did not notice it or complain.

 

 

 

 

And then it happened. VVS was cornered. No matter how hard he thought, he did not find a away out. And RESIGNED HUMILIATED as Bharathi got up to dance and drown the street in loud triumph. The ‘dance that Bharathi put up was one of a kind, a tribal dance as if punch drunk in gay abandon. Bharathi was a child in unalloyed joy and taunted VVS for a repeat, he had the gumption and hall’.

 

I really loved this part of Bharathi. He was a genius. A mature poet with high ideals and sublime philosophy,  in his wordplay. But, yet he was a child at heart and loved and enjoyed life. He was always his ‘authentic self’ as his biographer Va. Ra. He played marbles and ‘gilli thanda’ with kids  on the road. Even as he came out of his house, it was a boisterous occasion. He jumped to the lower stairs in the neighbouring house and back,  and again and again ; never bothered that ‘others’ were watching this married man with two daughters. Must have been some scene. The beauty lies in closing one’s eyes and imagining  Bharathi perform. Some sight to behold.

 

 

 

 

There is  just one  sense of disappointment for me, typifying the not so recent past.No PIL filed against the conduct of the Chess Olympiad,  on some invented/innovative ground of no substance. That would have lent  more media publicity and ‘credibility’  to the event. Or the more venal and viral ‘Go Back Modi’ trolling.Instead, the Prime Minister is the prime host,  welcoming the guests from 187  countries. Has Tamil Nadu pivoted for the better or it is just a little inconvenient pause?

 

This is the 44th Olympiad. The 1st Team Chess Tournament was held together with the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris -12–20 July 1924, at the Hotel Majestic. On June 19, 2022 PM Modi had  flagged off the first-ever torch relay for the Chess Olympiad. The torch was aimed to be taken to 75 cities within the country before arriving in Mamallapuram. The total number of participants will be 1,733, with 935 in the Open and 798 in the Women’s event.The number of registered teams is 188 from 187  nations in the Open section and 162 from 160 nations in the Women’s section.Both sections will expectedly set team participation records. The main venue of the Chess Olympiad will be the convention centre at the Four Points of Sheraton, while the opening and closing ceremonies will be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. The Chief Arbiter of the event will be France’s International Arbiter Laurent Freud.

 

 

 

 

We live in digital times.AI-Artificial Intelligence is the name of the game. Deep Learning,Machine Learning,Digital Surveillance  are current lingo.It is almost 25 years since a computer,  as a wizard beat the then current world chess champion. IBM’s Deep Blue made history in 1997 when it became the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion. A research team led by Institute of Electrical  and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE) Senior Member Murray Campbell and Feng-hsiung Hsu  developed the machine.

 

Kasparov accused the IBM team of cheating its way to victory. In reality, though, scientists had been interested in programming a computer to play chess since the late 1940s, according to an  article on IBM’s blog about Deep Blue. It took years for engineers and computer scientists to perfect the artificial intelligence program that would one day beat a world champion.

 

 

 

 

 

Deep Blue’s story began in 1985, when Hsu, then a Carnegie Mellon graduate student, started working on his dissertation project: ChipTest, a chess-playing machine. Hsu worked with Campbell, who was a research associate at the university, and graduate student Thomas Anantharaman, an IEEE

member, to develop ChipTest. Hsu and Campbell later joined IBM Research in

Yorktown Heights, N.Y., in 1989. The duo continued developing a chess-playing machine but this time with other computer scientists working on the Deep Blue project.

 

Bharathi was No Fisher. Fisher was no Bharathi either. But the ‘other worldliness’ in them was one faculty which made them stand out. It’s no exaggeration to call Bobby Fischer both one of the most admired and one of the most reviled figures in American history. The admiration is prompted by his precocious rise to the pinnacle of the chess-playing world and his galvanizing 1972 cold-war-era triumph over Boris Spassky, the Soviet champion. The vilification stems from the monstrousness he exhibited in later years. On Sept. 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers in New York were struck, he told a radio interviewer, “Yes, well, this is all wonderful news,” and, “It’s time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.” Thanks to the Internet, those comments will live forever.

 

 

 

 

In 1956 so-called Game of the Century, when this 13-year-old nobody defeated Donald Byrne, a 25-year-old college professor, and shocked onlookers with his cunning and audacity. When Fischer made the especially daring sacrifice of a knight, a tournament referee said, “a murmur went through the tournament room after this move, and the kibitzers thronged to Fischer’s table as fish to a hole in the ice.”

 

 

 

 

 

Today, 28th July,2022, Prime Minister of India, Narendra Damordas Modi makes  the first MOVE.

 

(Author of Chinnaswamy Subramania Bharathi,Kalaimagal Publications, to be published on 15th Aug,2022- and practising advocate in the Madras High Court)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Musings on Chaturanga

Narasimhan Vijayaraghavan

 

 

 

 

 

Subramania Bharathiyar was joined by Va.Ve.Su. Iyer in Pondicherry, after 1906. With Aurobindo Ghosh, they formed an intellectual triumvirate of unparalleled intellect. Chess was often debated and discussed,  among the philosophical topics primed on poetry, literature  and linguistics, though only Bharathi-VVS chess tangled  at Bharathi’s home on Eswaran Dharamarajan Koli Street. It appears that VVS was better on the chess board and Bharathi vowed to beat him one day.So, whenever time was on offer, Bharathi ‘practised’  with Kuvalai Kannan, whom he easily  trumped to earn ‘psychological boost’, as a writer mused.

 

Came the day that Bharathi eagerly anticipated. He billed it as a world championship. Invited a whole host of his friends ( his admirers,as the report runs). Bharathi teed up for the occasion,  in his very attire, but VVS was cool and indifferent. Bharathi was determined and so had parked his satellites around the board. With no Arbiter around, Bharathi was not ‘beyond distracting VVS and conveniently moved the coins to set up a win’. VVS was engrossed and did not notice it or complain.

 

 

 

 

And then it happened. VVS was cornered. No matter how hard he thought, he did not find a away out. And RESIGNED HUMILIATED as Bharathi got up to dance and drown the street in loud triumph. The ‘dance that Bharathi put up was one of a kind, a tribal dance as if punch drunk in gay abandon. Bharathi was a child in unalloyed joy and taunted VVS for a repeat, he had the gumption and hall’.

 

I really loved this part of Bharathi. He was a genius. A mature poet with high ideals and sublime philosophy,  in his wordplay. But, yet he was a child at heart and loved and enjoyed life. He was always his ‘authentic self’ as his biographer Va. Ra. He played marbles and ‘gilli thanda’ with kids  on the road. Even as he came out of his house, it was a boisterous occasion. He jumped to the lower stairs in the neighbouring house and back,  and again and again ; never bothered that ‘others’ were watching this married man with two daughters. Must have been some scene. The beauty lies in closing one’s eyes and imagining  Bharathi perform. Some sight to behold.

 

 

 

 

There is  just one  sense of disappointment for me, typifying the not so recent past.No PIL filed against the conduct of the Chess Olympiad,  on some invented/innovative ground of no substance. That would have lent  more media publicity and ‘credibility’  to the event. Or the more venal and viral ‘Go Back Modi’ trolling.Instead, the Prime Minister is the prime host,  welcoming the guests from 187  countries. Has Tamil Nadu pivoted for the better or it is just a little inconvenient pause?

 

This is the 44th Olympiad. The 1st Team Chess Tournament was held together with the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris -12–20 July 1924, at the Hotel Majestic. On June 19, 2022 PM Modi had  flagged off the first-ever torch relay for the Chess Olympiad. The torch was aimed to be taken to 75 cities within the country before arriving in Mamallapuram. The total number of participants will be 1,733, with 935 in the Open and 798 in the Women’s event.The number of registered teams is 188 from 187  nations in the Open section and 162 from 160 nations in the Women’s section.Both sections will expectedly set team participation records. The main venue of the Chess Olympiad will be the convention centre at the Four Points of Sheraton, while the opening and closing ceremonies will be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. The Chief Arbiter of the event will be France’s International Arbiter Laurent Freud.

 

 

 

 

We live in digital times.AI-Artificial Intelligence is the name of the game. Deep Learning,Machine Learning,Digital Surveillance  are current lingo.It is almost 25 years since a computer,  as a wizard beat the then current world chess champion. IBM’s Deep Blue made history in 1997 when it became the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion. A research team led by Institute of Electrical  and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE) Senior Member Murray Campbell and Feng-hsiung Hsu  developed the machine.

 

Kasparov accused the IBM team of cheating its way to victory. In reality, though, scientists had been interested in programming a computer to play chess since the late 1940s, according to an  article on IBM’s blog about Deep Blue. It took years for engineers and computer scientists to perfect the artificial intelligence program that would one day beat a world champion.

 

 

 

 

 

Deep Blue’s story began in 1985, when Hsu, then a Carnegie Mellon graduate student, started working on his dissertation project: ChipTest, a chess-playing machine. Hsu worked with Campbell, who was a research associate at the university, and graduate student Thomas Anantharaman, an IEEE

member, to develop ChipTest. Hsu and Campbell later joined IBM Research in

Yorktown Heights, N.Y., in 1989. The duo continued developing a chess-playing machine but this time with other computer scientists working on the Deep Blue project.

 

Bharathi was No Fisher. Fisher was no Bharathi either. But the ‘other worldliness’ in them was one faculty which made them stand out. It’s no exaggeration to call Bobby Fischer both one of the most admired and one of the most reviled figures in American history. The admiration is prompted by his precocious rise to the pinnacle of the chess-playing world and his galvanizing 1972 cold-war-era triumph over Boris Spassky, the Soviet champion. The vilification stems from the monstrousness he exhibited in later years. On Sept. 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers in New York were struck, he told a radio interviewer, “Yes, well, this is all wonderful news,” and, “It’s time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.” Thanks to the Internet, those comments will live forever.

 

 

 

 

In 1956 so-called Game of the Century, when this 13-year-old nobody defeated Donald Byrne, a 25-year-old college professor, and shocked onlookers with his cunning and audacity. When Fischer made the especially daring sacrifice of a knight, a tournament referee said, “a murmur went through the tournament room after this move, and the kibitzers thronged to Fischer’s table as fish to a hole in the ice.”

 

 

 

 

 

Today, 28th July,2022, Prime Minister of India, Narendra Damordas Modi makes  the first MOVE.

 

(Author of Chinnaswamy Subramania Bharathi,Kalaimagal Publications, to be published on 15th Aug,2022- and practising advocate in the Madras High Court)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Musings on Chaturanga

Narasimhan Vijayaraghavan

 

 

 

 

 

Subramania Bharathiyar was joined by Va.Ve.Su. Iyer in Pondicherry, after 1906. With Aurobindo Ghosh, they formed an intellectual triumvirate of unparalleled intellect. Chess was often debated and discussed,  among the philosophical topics primed on poetry, literature  and linguistics, though only Bharathi-VVS chess tangled  at Bharathi’s home on Eswaran Dharamarajan Koli Street. It appears that VVS was better on the chess board and Bharathi vowed to beat him one day.So, whenever time was on offer, Bharathi ‘practised’  with Kuvalai Kannan, whom he easily  trumped to earn ‘psychological boost’, as a writer mused.

 

Came the day that Bharathi eagerly anticipated. He billed it as a world championship. Invited a whole host of his friends ( his admirers,as the report runs). Bharathi teed up for the occasion,  in his very attire, but VVS was cool and indifferent. Bharathi was determined and so had parked his satellites around the board. With no Arbiter around, Bharathi was not ‘beyond distracting VVS and conveniently moved the coins to set up a win’. VVS was engrossed and did not notice it or complain.

 

 

 

 

And then it happened. VVS was cornered. No matter how hard he thought, he did not find a away out. And RESIGNED HUMILIATED as Bharathi got up to dance and drown the street in loud triumph. The ‘dance that Bharathi put up was one of a kind, a tribal dance as if punch drunk in gay abandon. Bharathi was a child in unalloyed joy and taunted VVS for a repeat, he had the gumption and hall’.

 

I really loved this part of Bharathi. He was a genius. A mature poet with high ideals and sublime philosophy,  in his wordplay. But, yet he was a child at heart and loved and enjoyed life. He was always his ‘authentic self’ as his biographer Va. Ra. He played marbles and ‘gilli thanda’ with kids  on the road. Even as he came out of his house, it was a boisterous occasion. He jumped to the lower stairs in the neighbouring house and back,  and again and again ; never bothered that ‘others’ were watching this married man with two daughters. Must have been some scene. The beauty lies in closing one’s eyes and imagining  Bharathi perform. Some sight to behold.

 

 

 

 

There is  just one  sense of disappointment for me, typifying the not so recent past.No PIL filed against the conduct of the Chess Olympiad,  on some invented/innovative ground of no substance. That would have lent  more media publicity and ‘credibility’  to the event. Or the more venal and viral ‘Go Back Modi’ trolling.Instead, the Prime Minister is the prime host,  welcoming the guests from 187  countries. Has Tamil Nadu pivoted for the better or it is just a little inconvenient pause?

 

This is the 44th Olympiad. The 1st Team Chess Tournament was held together with the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris -12–20 July 1924, at the Hotel Majestic. On June 19, 2022 PM Modi had  flagged off the first-ever torch relay for the Chess Olympiad. The torch was aimed to be taken to 75 cities within the country before arriving in Mamallapuram. The total number of participants will be 1,733, with 935 in the Open and 798 in the Women’s event.The number of registered teams is 188 from 187  nations in the Open section and 162 from 160 nations in the Women’s section.Both sections will expectedly set team participation records. The main venue of the Chess Olympiad will be the convention centre at the Four Points of Sheraton, while the opening and closing ceremonies will be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. The Chief Arbiter of the event will be France’s International Arbiter Laurent Freud.

 

 

 

 

We live in digital times.AI-Artificial Intelligence is the name of the game. Deep Learning,Machine Learning,Digital Surveillance  are current lingo.It is almost 25 years since a computer,  as a wizard beat the then current world chess champion. IBM’s Deep Blue made history in 1997 when it became the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion. A research team led by Institute of Electrical  and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE) Senior Member Murray Campbell and Feng-hsiung Hsu  developed the machine.

 

Kasparov accused the IBM team of cheating its way to victory. In reality, though, scientists had been interested in programming a computer to play chess since the late 1940s, according to an  article on IBM’s blog about Deep Blue. It took years for engineers and computer scientists to perfect the artificial intelligence program that would one day beat a world champion.

 

 

 

 

 

Deep Blue’s story began in 1985, when Hsu, then a Carnegie Mellon graduate student, started working on his dissertation project: ChipTest, a chess-playing machine. Hsu worked with Campbell, who was a research associate at the university, and graduate student Thomas Anantharaman, an IEEE

member, to develop ChipTest. Hsu and Campbell later joined IBM Research in

Yorktown Heights, N.Y., in 1989. The duo continued developing a chess-playing machine but this time with other computer scientists working on the Deep Blue project.

 

Bharathi was No Fisher. Fisher was no Bharathi either. But the ‘other worldliness’ in them was one faculty which made them stand out. It’s no exaggeration to call Bobby Fischer both one of the most admired and one of the most reviled figures in American history. The admiration is prompted by his precocious rise to the pinnacle of the chess-playing world and his galvanizing 1972 cold-war-era triumph over Boris Spassky, the Soviet champion. The vilification stems from the monstrousness he exhibited in later years. On Sept. 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers in New York were struck, he told a radio interviewer, “Yes, well, this is all wonderful news,” and, “It’s time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.” Thanks to the Internet, those comments will live forever.

 

 

 

 

In 1956 so-called Game of the Century, when this 13-year-old nobody defeated Donald Byrne, a 25-year-old college professor, and shocked onlookers with his cunning and audacity. When Fischer made the especially daring sacrifice of a knight, a tournament referee said, “a murmur went through the tournament room after this move, and the kibitzers thronged to Fischer’s table as fish to a hole in the ice.”

 

 

 

 

 

Today, 28th July,2022, Prime Minister of India, Narendra Damordas Modi makes  the first MOVE.

 

(Author of Chinnaswamy Subramania Bharathi,Kalaimagal Publications, to be published on 15th Aug,2022- and practising advocate in the Madras High Court)