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Disappointing AI

August 11, 2025 |

AI found rules of Wiswell:

1. Patience precedes power.

2. The middle game is where we live.

3. Sometimes the best move is to wait.

4. Mistakes are not shameful - they're illuminating.

5. You play against yourself, not just your opponent.

6. Simplicity is the highest form elegance.

7. You never stop learning.

Everything considered the AI search came up with a disappointing melange of generic rules that do Tom a great injustice.

J.T. adds:

I plugged it in to check and got a couple of Wiswell proverbs as well. Here are three:

• The winner of a match is not always determined by who is right, but in the end, who is left.

• We can play today’s draws and anticipate tomorrow’s wins, but we shouldn’t forget yesterday’s losses.

• The losing player who says: 'I’ll look it up tomorrow,' very seldom does look it up.

Vic continues:

i have the complete set. Tom would create 20 proverbs a week and then give the boys at ncz a lesson in checkers for 12 years from 1988 to 2000. he would say with a whistwell air, "I wish I had married a girl life Susan. but then I wouldn't have written 22 books."

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