🔒 The golden era of AI chess makes things tricky for players
This is one thing, perhaps, that superhuman AI, for all its transformative powers, will never be able to do: play chess for fun.
This is one thing, perhaps, that superhuman AI, for all its transformative powers, will never be able to do: play chess for fun.
Hans Moke Niemann, 19, took the fast track from private-school kid in New York City to chess grandmaster – then came the accusations.
Chess investigation finds that US Grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann ‘Likely Cheated’ more than 100 times.
World champion Magnus Carlsen has set the chess world on fire in recent weeks. Then this week, he resigned from a game after making just one move.
The moment countries across the world began locking down because of the pandemic, online chess exploded’, says The Wall Street Journal.
Take Netflix’s recent phenomenon The Queen’s Gambit, which hit 62m households in its first 28 days, second only to Tiger King.
‘No one should be intimidated by chess. You don’t have to be, or pretend to be, a savant. You don’t even need a live opponent. All you need is a smartphone and an account on a site like Chess.com.’
Perhaps we should be thankful Jacob Zuma’s strategic skills are on a par with his well documented numerical, economic and geographical abilities.