New paper from DeepMind and world champion Vladimir Kramnik uses the AlphaZero self-learning chess engine to explore nine variants on the rules of chess
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Magnus Carlsen fought back from the verge of defeat as the world champion clinched his seven-day, 38-game match against Hikaru Nakamura by four sets to three
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The Grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess: Hikaru Nakamura is the top-ranked blitz chess player in the world—and his channel has seen a meteoric rise as he coaches streamers in the ancient game
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Magnus Carlsen: ‘My emotions are usually outside my body and that's not what you usually connect to a chess player’
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Magnus Carlsen breaks record for longest unbeaten streak in chess history – world's number one chess player makes it 111 games without defeat
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Magnus Carlsen: ‘You need to be very fortunate to be number one in fantasy football’
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Magnus Carlsen, the world's best chess player for the last decade, is on the brink of reaching the top in another game – fantasy football
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Magnus Carlsen won't count Norway league games in record streak – world champion calls them 'Tivi-esque' in dig at Sergei Tiviakov
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At the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss tournament, two games between high-ranked players on adjacent boards were identical for the first 19 moves, then diverged as soon as one of the games was relocated
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Interview with Hou Yifan, the number one female chess player in the world, on growing up as a prodigy in China, the gender gap and more
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Apos Chess Variant
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Magnus Carlsen beats Fabiano Caruana in tie-breakers to retain World Chess crown
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Live analysis by sesse supercomputer of the world chess championship match
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Magnus Carlsen vs Fabiano Caruana, world chess championship match - game one ends in a draw
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Who will be king? Three-way battle for control rocks international chess.
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Does anyone else here play chess online?
I try (and fail) to play regularly on lichess under the username dear_sirs. I also have an account under the same name on chess.com. Feel free to drop usernames in the comments below, or send me a...
I try (and fail) to play regularly on lichess under the username dear_sirs. I also have an account under the same name on chess.com.
Feel free to drop usernames in the comments below, or send me a challenge for a correspondence game--I would love to play you!
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What is your favourite chess opening?
Mine's definitely Evan's Gambit. IF I can get a game with it I'm going to play it. Always leads to a fun, spicy game with enough tactical mess to make for a great blitz game. For any classical...
Mine's definitely Evan's Gambit. IF I can get a game with it I'm going to play it. Always leads to a fun, spicy game with enough tactical mess to make for a great blitz game. For any classical game though I'd probably just stick with open Italian systems but castling queenside and throwing pawns if they dare castle first.
How about you guys?
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