The Best Smart Chess Boards

Playing chess can be challenging, fun, and at times frustrating. Garry Kasparov called the game “mental torture.” With virtually limitless possibilities, chess offers unparalleled depth, and you could ...
The New York Times

How Three Chess Friends Battled Demons and Saved Two Lives

A homeless chess hustler, a scholar and an aging recluse found hope in a trashed apartment by Central Park. A homeless chess hustler, a scholar and an aging recluse found hope in a trashed apartment ...
National Geographic news

How chess became medieval Europe’s favorite pastime

Chess spread quickly through feudal Europe, far from its roots in sixth-century India. Here’s how the game of strategy kept the elite entertained. This miniature from the Codex Manesse shows Margrave ...
CNET

Duolingo Chess Players Soon Can Play Matches With Others

Android, it's your move. Language-learning app Duolingo announced Tuesday that it is launching its chess instruction to Android phones, three months after introducing the game to iOS devices. The ...
Wall Street Journal

The College-Admissions Chess Game Is More Complicated Than Ever

For high-school seniors across the country, May 1 is the denouement of a college-admissions chess game that has become more complicated than ever. Friday—the deadline for students to tell colleges ...
InfoWorld

Why it’s so hard to create stand-alone Python apps

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...
Time

I’m a Chess Champion. Here’s Why I Play Chess Against ChatGPT

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MM&M

Making Brands Stick: VCCP’s CHESS moves to create work that works

What makes a healthcare brand stick? In this episode, VCCP Health unpacks CHESS moves: Character, Humor, Emotion, Surprise and Sonic Branding, and how they help brands move beyond awareness to become ...
Reuters

Carlsen start-up takes aim at Chess.com with move into play and learn tools

PARIS, April 6 (Reuters) - Magnus Carlsen's chess startup Take Take Take announced on Monday it was pushing into the play and learning markets ‌central to Chess.com's core business, despite commercial ...
The Conversation

How medieval chess created a space in which players – regardless of race – could engage as equals

In the medieval European imagination, racial difference was often highly polarised. Black people were perceived either as exotic status symbols – including saints and wealthy rulers such as the Queen ...
TechSpot

AI has mastered chess, so humans are changing the rules of the game

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest player in history. However, it cannot replace him. These super-strong platforms ...
InfoQ

QCon London AI Coding State of the Game: More Capable, More Expensive, More Dangerous Coding Agents

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