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Chess cheats and the GOAT
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - April 02, 2019 13:34 - 10 minutes - 9.22 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Who is the greatest chess player in history? And what does the answer have to do with a story of a chess cheating school from Texas? In this week’s More or Less, the BBC’s numbers programme, David Edmonds finds out what a statistical analysis of chess moves can teach us about this ancient board game.
Presenter: David Edmonds
Producer: Darin Graham
Image: A Chess Board
Credit: Getty Images