Fifth Question

Why can’t supercomputers like “Deep Blue” or “Deep Fritz” win all chess games against expert players?

End of Round Four

Why this question ?
The whole thing is pretty much stressing the point that sometimes – no matter how hard we look we cannot find a solution. The question was to make you use your imagination of what it could be and what it would signify – to ask questions about the weird things you discover during testing.

My view:
It looks like a Gomoku game with equal number of placed pieces – as white starts then the next move would be white’s. If not placed correctly into one place then black will win.
There is a missing line in top right corner.
Taken be rows it could be morse code black long signal and white short - A P U G Y C V
It could be whatever.

The point being that one should not just give up when specifications or easy answers are not handy, but to look more into the problem - analyze the situation, assume something and then test that assumption. And then Test again from different assumption and angle - to see what makes sense.

Before the discussion the answer nr. 5 was voted the best.

The following are all the answers I received :
(Spelling not corrected. )

Tester 1:
It’s a memory chip.
Miss one row and one column.
Add column on the left and row on the bottom, so that arrow place on centre
So the table coverts into binary table where rows and columns are from 0000 to 1111

White:
Bin Dec
01011000 88
01100110 102
01101001 105
01110111 119
01111000 120
01111001 121
10000110 134
10001000 136
10001001 137
10010110 150
10011000 152
10101001 169
SUM 1533
Black:
Bin Dec
01010111 87
01100111 103
01101000 104
01110101 117
01110110 118
01111010 122
10000111 135
10010111 151
10011001 153
10100110 166
10100111 167
10101000 168
SUM 1758
Black got more points and is a winner.


Tester 5:
There is a reversi gameboard with faulty upper right corner. Game situation seems to be fair tide - game is an early stadium and both players have equally 12 pieces.
Assume:
There is something about shape of pieces and gameboard and maybe this isn't game of reversi after all. There must be a forest beyond the trees.
Conclude:
Ahhaa.. black and white pieces form a shape of arrow. This picture with faulty gameboard and arrow is a form of conceptual art...
and art can't be evaluated with software testing methods!!!

Tester 6:
Displayed area have squared shape and is bordered with black frame.
Area background is covered with squares except upper right corner where two squares are merged into one rectangle.
Can't verify 13 background squares and can only partly verify 24 background squares because they are covered with circles.
Circles form a symmetrical image but this image is not centered in squared background.
Image formed by circles have arrowed shape.
There is equal amount of black an white circles.
Both black and white circles form at least one T like shape.
There are 12 white circles, 12 black circles, 194 squares and 1 rectangle if area covered with circles have squares in background.
If area covered with circles have squares in background then all circles are centered in corners of circles.
Squares side length is equal to circles diameter.

Tester 9:
The buttons make a image of a house or a arrow pointing upwards. If we rearrange the black and white buttons we can get a white house with a black roof or vice versa because the pointy part and a bottom part has both 12 buttons.

Tester 10:
From tester viewpoint this kind of picture is not telling much and question scale is to general.
We can analyze and say that there are certain amount of rectangles, circles or black lines or we can assume that this is a puzzling-picture and conclude by giving our personal opinion about possible solution but tester conclusion is more qualified with exact background knowledge and knowhow.