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Comment by JohnKemeny

6 days ago

The last time someone claimed a medal in an olympiad like this, turned out they manually translated the problem into Lean and then ran a brute force search algorithm to find a proof. For 60 hours. On a supercomputer.

Meanwhile high schoolers get a piece of paper and 4.5 hours.

Even though chess is now effectively solved against human players, I still remember Kasparov's suspicion that one of Deep Blue's moves had a human touch. It was never proven or disproven, but I trust Kasparov's deep intuition amplified by Kasparov requesting access to Deep Blue’s logs, and IBM refusing to share them in full. For more discussions see [1][2][3].

[1] https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/9959/did-deep-blue...

[2] https://nautil.us/why-the-chess-computer-deep-blue-played-li...

[3] https://en.chessbase.com/post/deep-blue-s-cheating-move