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With AI driving more draws, chess players embrace unpredictability

Elite chess players are abandoning engine-approved strategies in favor of wild, hard-to-predict moves designed to break ...

AI has mastered chess, so humans are changing the rules of the game

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest ...
Medicine Buffalo

Can chess engines make better emergency room decisions?

Computer chess engines surpassed the world’s best human players in the 1990s. They can calculate millions of moves per second, allowing them to quickly make the best decision on the board. So why ...
VentureBeat

DeepMind's AlphaZero beats state-of-the-art chess and shogi game engines

Almost a year ago exactly, DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence (AI) division owned by Google parent company Alphabet, made headlines with preprint research ("Mastering Chess and Shogi by ...
The Next Web

This AI chess engine aims to help human players rather than defeat them

Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15 years. It’s ...
The Atlantic

A Good Chess Cheater Might Never Be Caught

Ever since he beat the greatest chess player who ever lived, Hans Niemann has been called a cheat. The 19-year-old’s surprising victory over Magnus Carlsen in St. Louis on September 4 led to ...
TechCrunch

Tech is at the heart of the biggest chess drama in years

The chess world is currently consumed by a drama as lurid and compelling, in its way, as the “Don’t Worry Darling” fracas. Involving implications of cheating at the highest levels of play, the feud ...