AI ruined chess. Now it’s making the game beautiful again

AI ruined chess. Now it’s making the game beautiful again

[Hwan Cho] Nowadays, the best chess players are AI machines who outperform human grandmasters. However, these chess machines have limited creativity and relied solely on memorization. Vladimir Kramnik, a former world champion and the Alphabet have partnered up to try to solve this problem.

Enlarge Chess has a reputation for cold logic, but Vladimir Kramnik loves the game for its beauty. “It’s a kind of creation,” he says. His passion for the artistry of minds clashing over the board, trading complex but elegant provocations and counters, helped him dethrone Garry Kasparov in 2000 […]

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TCCM holds online chess for a cause

TCCM holds online chess for a cause

[Hwan Cho] The Toledo City Chess Miners (TCCM) will hold an online chess tournament on September 13, 2020, to help people who have lost their jobs and having financial crises amidst this pandemic. The competition is open to all players and several grandmasters Joey Lopez and Henry Lopez have planned to join.

THE Toledo City Chess Miners (TCCM) will organize its first major online chess tournament dubbed “Hero at Home,” which is open to all chess wizards on Sept. 13, 2020. The one-day chess tilt is part of the group’s fund-raising campaign to help members who lost their jobs amid the […]

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