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July 4

Stalemates and perpetual checks between chess engines

Is it known how many draws between competing chess engines were achieved by stalemates or perpetual checks/threefold repetition (possibly including strong ones like Houdini, Rybka and Stockfish)? Thanks in advance. Brandmeister^talk 13:54, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

I have 3 questions about the Jerry Springer show?

1. Are any of the guests "problems" actully real?
3. Are the transexual people on the show really trans or just pretending? Venustar84 (talk) 18:54, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Is that show still on the air? I think he's been accused of "staging" stuff in the distant past. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:57, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

1) It's rather obvious that they do something to make physical fights happen often, as they erupt way too often on stage to be mere chance. But, the degree to which it's staged is unclear. It's probably not fully staged, with actors playing all the parts and every fight choreographed in advance, as that would leave way too much of a trail. It might just be that getting "guests" on the show that hate each other, then announcing something to make one hate another even more, is enough to start a fight. Could be they offer some financial incentive to fight on the show (perhaps just paying people who are prone to fighting to be on is enough incentive). I'm doubt that any payments specifically to fight could be keep secret for long, though. StuRat (talk) 23:40, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

2) I removed Q 2 ("when was the KKK last on") since you asked below and got an answer there. Don't double post Q's. StuRat (talk) 15:59, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

3) I don't see any reason why they couldn't get real trans people for the show. Presumably they would prefer that, since their viewers might be disappointed if that aspect of the show was revealed to be fake. And, unlike onstage fighting, it shouldn't be hard to find a new transsexual or two for every episode. StuRat (talk) 16:03, 6 July 2015 (UTC)