To try to understand the market for chess moves, I manually submitted a HIT to get an initial move from AWS MTurk from the starting chess position. Reward price was $0.05, and I set a maximum of 10 workers for a period of 24 hours. Moves were required to be in FIDE chess algebraic notation. I figured that around the world, hundreds of millions of people know how to play chess, so this was going to attract plenty of workers.
And just 13 seconds after I submitted the HIT, I got my first move back: "e4". But then a funny thing happened - no one else worked on the HIT. I guess $0.05 per move might be too low to get much participation.
So here is the board after the White "e4" move by the anonymous worker on MTurk:
r n b q k b n r
p p p p p p p p
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . P . . .
. . . . . . . .
P P P P . P P P
R N B Q K B N R
I fired up gnuchess as the opponent to the MTurk, and it moved Black "Nc6", so here is where the game is at now:
r . b q k b n r
p p p p p p p p
. . n . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . P . . .
. . . . . . . .
P P P P . P P P
R N B Q K B N R
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