When it comes to chess, psychological scientists have concluded that practice is necessary to get to the master level -- but it's not enough. There has to be something else that sets apart the people ...
Today the machine learning algorithm MuZero was detailed in a feature research paper in Nature. MuZero expands on the abilities of systems like AlphaGo, AlphaGo Zero, and AlphaZero. Each new algorithm ...
It took Michael Casner only five minutes to handily beat me in a game of chess. Even more embarrassing, he did it without first capturing a single piece. “Checkmate,” the eighth-grader told me while ...
Check your calendar. A student organization is working day and knight to prepare an event fit for a king. “Challenge a Champion,” hosted by the Chess Club at Ohio State, is bringing International ...
GRANITE FALLS – Igor Ummel’s friends at Granite Falls Middle School know he’s good at chess, but they don’t ask him a lot about his success. Most just figure a game with their 13-year-old classmate ...
Years before the notion of starting a software company ever entered my mind, I briefly toyed with the idea of becoming a professional chess player. At the age of 19 as a sophomore in college, I tied ...