First, he obtained two patents -- one covering the method of play, the other a board version of his game.
Instead of the usual method of playing the game with the hands, the teams were given a form explaining the rules.
The long manicured nails of his right hand offered a visual reminder of the demands of his craft: "fingerstyle guitar," the classical method of playing, involves plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to the fingers.
That's what happened to Arthur Chu, the unconventional "Jeopardy!" champion who finally lost after his 12-day winning streak on Wednesday, March 12. Chu was villainized for deviating from the traditional method of playing the game (answering questions one-by-one in each category).
Many of the existing successful approaches to general game playing require to generate some form of game-specific knowledge, but when current systems establish knowledge they rely on the approximate method of playing random sample matches rather than formally proving knowledge.
Shirov selects the most aggressive method of playing for an attack, 11 O-O-O, rather than 11 O-O.
This is not done from the standpoint of trying to devise a new piano technique, although it actually amounts to that, but rather because this is the only practicable method of playing such large chords.
Also on the way is a method of playing ad-hoc only (in this case, meaning PSP-to-PSP) games with people around the internet.
