by the 90s, engines were over Expert level but certainly not GM level.IBM, yes, the renowned business and technology company, sought to generate popularity for itself by developing a custom chess engine with its own special processor designed specifically for playing chess, it incorporated pruning ...
What does the future hold? Now that we’re back to the present, there is probably a natural next question on your mind: so what comes next for AI? Well, we can never entirely predict the future. However, many leading experts talk about the possible futures of AI, so we can make educ...
At age 11, I placed 25th in the K-12 Chess National Championships. Things To Improve There are still references to old source code released that are mentioned on the Archive.org Wayback Machine. I still have these source code archives in the exact state they were published and uploaded in...
The chess for me was hard slogging. Many of the lower rated masters, such as the Champion of Hawaii (!) Rubshamen (2260), defended doggedly coming up with many defensive resources (in both the G/75 and the 40/2 games). Lower rated players must be getting stronger? I played in four ...
Tucker, on training run, dies when his P-38 fighter crashes at Wayside Honor Rancho (later Pichess Detention Center) in Castaic. October 1: Actor William S. Hart's sister and co-habitant in Newhall, Mary Ellen Hart, dies. 1944 April 29: U.S. release of "Outlaw Trail" starring Hoot...
The Smith-Morra segment is particularly interesting because it dovetails into another set of Chess.FM lectures given by IM Alex Lenderman. In his segments, he presents the Smith-Morra from the white side. I focus on black’s resources and in combination we do have a very interesting “360 ...
White is better, but the position is double-edged. 23.Qc2 and 23.Qb2 were the best options, according to chess engines. Here Ding blundered. 23.Rb1?Nepomniachtchi gave Ding a look which said – "are you sure you want to play that"? Now, White's advantage disappeared, and the ini...
Neural nets behave differently from chess engines, of course. But many luminaries agree strongly with Kasparov’s vision of human-AI collaboration. DeepMind’s Hassabis sees AI as a way forward for science, one that will guide humans toward new breakthroughs. “I think we’re going to see ...
The position is a theoretical draw, as chess engines today will instantly recognize – because the endgame queen vs c or f-pawn is apparently part of their chess knowledge. For CHESS 4.8 this was not the case, but the program was able to survive by doing a pure brute force search and ...
On to the Chess! Game 1.Kamran takes on a “rock”, GM Anatoly Lein. Shirazi – Lein, US Championship 1986 French Winawer 4. Ne2 variation 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Ne2 dxe4 5.a3 Be7 6.Nxe4 Nd7 7.Bf4 Ngf6 8.Qd3A rather common sideline of the set of Winawer unc...