Luke's Blog

  Implicit Rules Broken in Chess   In this blog I will be discussing a recent controversy in the chess community, where a Grandmaster by the name of Hans Niemann was accused of cheating while playing against World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen during a chess tournament earlier this year. The reason I chose this topic is because we have been looking at the three rule types in games, Structural, Operational and Implicit. What I would like to focus on is how Hans Niemann broke one of the most basic Implicit laws of chess, and of gaming in general, NO CHEATING. The world of chess is no stranger to cheating, everyone who has ever had an account on a chess website such as Chess.com or Lichess.com and played a few games, has more than likely ran into a player using a chess bot to tell them the winning moves. While Chess.com themselves state that “fewer than 0.2% of players cheat in online chess”, ( https://www.chess.com/article/view/online-chess-cheating ) , cheating in onlin...

  Addiction in Gaming ( https://doralfamilyjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/video-game-addiction-800x445.jpg )   In this blog, I will explore some of the ideas behind gaming-addiction, what causes it, what it looks like, and how to help an addict. This blog is based off an article posted by Addiction Centre, (link below). When talking about addiction in general, the key idea behind it, for me, is someone who is abusing a particular substance to the point where it is causing a detriment to their health or the health of those around them, and when withdrawal of said substance is painful for the person in question. The average amount of time gamers spend on video games is 6 hours a week. According to AddictionCenter.com, an informational web guide for those struggling with substance abuse, “ Video games affect the brain in the same way as addictive drugs: they trigger the release of dopamine, a chemical which reinforces behaviour. For this reason, playing video game...