While I love Mythbusters, they too are hardly without reproach.One episode refuted sinking SHIPS sucking people down when sinking.The test involved a rather small boat of @ 30feet length.

I would tend to ask some noted survivors; IE of HMS HOOD and IJN YAMATO what exactly was pulling them down until they broke free via an escaping huge air bubble or vigorous swimming.

As to chess, anyone knows it's not true chess unless played in parks on sunny afternoons.

If IBM's Big Blue was a harbinger of the future, kindly some one have a 'intelligent' brute coomputational discussion with the majority of PCs who seem to go down on mere whims.

Several years ago Texas Instruments matched a calculator vs a chinese grandmother with her abacus.She cleaned TI's circuit boards everytime.