[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 […]
