DNA and chess

[PeterTurland]

Hello,

I've sort of thought for ages, there is something about chess and human conciousness that connects on a very deep level.

There is a deep connection between chess and DNA, that I don't think has been truly analysed yet.

2^2^2^2 = 64

[Robert Stokes]

I don't know why the mathematical statement on the last line is there or what it has to do with chess but I should point out that it is ambiguous as well as incorrect. To be unambiguous it needs brackets because:-

2^(2^(2^2)) = 65536

((2^2)^2)^2 = 256

I don't think there is any way of putting brackets in that makes it give a total of 64.

[Neill Cooper]

Perhaps he meant the way that the three base sequence in DNA gives 4^3=64 possible codons, more than enough for the 20 amino acids and the stop codons.

[PeterTurland]

Perhaps he meant the way that the three base sequence in DNA gives 4^3=64 possible codons, more than enough for the 20 amino acids and the stop codons.

Yeah you got me Neill. I left school at 15 not realizing I had a brain

I'm given to understand the size of the human genome is 3.2Gb, with my limited understanding, this seems to suggest that you could fit our entire genome on a DVD! The compression is mindboggling. Perhaps it's the complexity of chess, with its seeming surface simplicity of only 6 different kinds of piece and 64 squares resonates somehow with the way our minds work. How else can you explain the extraordinary phenomena of a four year old Susan Polgar, beating much older people, except by saying there is something intrinsic about chess and what our neurons get up to?