Anti-noise stragegies to engage chess grandmasters

Ann Rosén is a Swedish sound sculptor who we met at Teks' excellent Trondheim Matchmaking conference. She has been working collaboratively with artists, scientists, researchers and architects on a project to create volumes of sculpted silence in noisy public spaces using anti-noise; sensory subtraction in real space.

She suggested some excellent strategies to engage the interest of conventional chess players in 3 Player Chess. She suggested a number of things but the thing that stuck in my head was that I should invent another name for the "chance" spin of the coin. After I had described the exasperation expressed by the few chess players that I have managed to lure to the new game, she suggested that I imply that there was another level to the game, that there was a hidden algorithm in the spin of the coin- even give the secret pattern a name, challenging the grandmasters to solve it.

ha ha, this is a fantastic idea!- Ruth