Socrates (socratesbatis)

Race #74

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Official speed 65.17 wpm (81.20 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start April 27, 2020 8:49:34am UTC
Race Finish April 27, 2020 8:50:55am UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 3)
Accuracy 96.0%
Points 84.72
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In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.