chess

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/24/us-norway-gates-chess-idUSBREA0N1I820140124 Wow! Talk about a butt whippin. :) I'd like to think I might last a bit longer. Ranb

As a long time chess player, I often wonder just how beneficial chess is for the mind, for schoolchildren in particular. There are few things said as often by skeptics on this forum and elsewhere about the need for teaching critical thinking to children, and to people in general. Which leads me...

I've recently started playing the Windows 7 version of Chess Titans. There are a few strategies that work, even at level 10, because the program doesn't make good choices when you attack its home row. If I don't play the desperately aggressive strategy that would lose against a human, I find...

I'm curious to know if anyone is anywhere close to solving chess, like they did with checkers not too long ago. Wikipedia doens't have too much info on it. Is it even possible to solve chess using today's technology?

Here's the story, in a nutshell: An amateur chess player and occultist (Wolfgang Eisenbeiss) has an idea for a supernatural chess game. A medium he knew (Robert Rollans) with no experience playing chess will contact a dead grandmaster and play a game (by mail) with a living grandmaster...

Stumbled across this conspiracy theory after reading several wikipedia chess articles. The conspiracy is that IBM used a human grandmaster to "assist" Deep Blue during crucial parts of the game. Link Basically, the conspiracy theory is based on the following: - Kasparov was convinced that...

Least computationally expensive way to implement chess AI? I'm thinking about using using a mixture of genetic algorithms and neural networks, but a simple framework does not come to mind. I'd also like to attempt the same in creating a powerful computer assisted translation application that...

One of the greatest chess minds in history has passed away. Though he is famous for his 1972 match against World Champion Boris Spassky, he became known in recent years for his anti-semitism and rants against the U.S. government.

I thought i'd stoke some feminist fires with this one......:) http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_1376865.htm But any discourse in the public arena is usually neutered by some PC-laden nonsense, like the explanation given below...

Is chess, more than other board games, a game of logic? It seems to me that chess is simply an extremely complicated and dynamic game based on a very simple set of rules. In other words, it is a game of rules rather than a game of logic. Are there principles of logic that can be well...