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Excluding trans women in women’s chess makes you a pawn of the patriarchy
Wait a bit, chess has separate competitions for men and women? Why? – The world’s top chess federation is banning trans women from competing until a review is made
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How a Mechanical Chess-Playing Turk gave Birth to the AI Debate 250 Years Ago
The Mechanical Turk quickly became a symbol of technological innovation and sparked the same heated debates we’re having right now about the nature of artificial intelligence, the limits of human ingenuity, and the possibility of constructing a machine capable of replicating human thought.
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After competing without hijab, Iranian chess player heads to Spain in wake of threats
An Iranian chess player arrived in Spain on Tuesday after receiving what a source close to her said were warnings not to return to Iran for competing without a hijab at an international tournament in Kazakhstan.
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After chess, cheating rows rock poker and fishing
Viral videos in the US have shown a surprising card game win - and fish stuffed with weights.
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World chess champion Magnus Carlsen quits game after just one move amid cheating controversy
A week ago, Carlsen lost to Hans Niemann, a young American who has admitted to cheating in online games in the past.
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Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent
Played by humans, chess is a game of strategic thinking, calm concentration and patient intellectual endeavour. Violence does not usually come into it. The same, it seems, cannot always be said of machines. Last week, according to Russian media outlets, a chess-playing robot, apparently unsettled by the quick responses of a seven-year-old boy, unceremoniously grabbed and broke his finger during a match at the Moscow Open.
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We Taught Computers To Play Chess — And Then They Left Us Behind
I still remember the first board on which I ever played chess. It was an irregular and heavy slab of walnut, maybe 14 inches on a side, onto which green squares of felt had been carefully glued by hand. It was a homemade Christmas gift from my mother’s siblings to their father, my grandfather Jack.
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Chess coaches in Africa are building the next generation of grandmasters
More than a dozen children gather under a canopy in Makoko, the floating slum in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial center. Aged 8 to 18, they are focused on the chess boards before them, calculating moves that will allow them to win the game.
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The Queen’s Gambit Created a Fictional Female Chess Grandmaster. The Soviet Union Created Dozens of Real Ones.
Soviet chess grandmaster Nona Gaprindashvili has announced that she is suing Netflix for belittling her achievements in The Queen’s Gambit. Her career shows we don’t need fictional rags-to-riches stories but welfare states that allow us to realize our true potential.
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A Chess Trailblazer Is Suing Netflix Over Her Portrayal In 'The Queen's Gambit'
Georgian chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili is suing Netflix for defamation. At issue is a line in the show's final episode that falsely says she hadn't played against male opponents.
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Knight of the night
“I came here to get a PhD in American literature, and here I am, with pictures of American writers on the wall—a chess vendor.”
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Why a YouTube Chat About Chess Got Flagged for Hate Speech
AI programs that analyze language have difficulty gauging context. Words such as “black,” “white,” and “attack" can have different meanings.
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10 Positions Chess Engines Just Don't Understand
Since IBM's Deep Blue defeated World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in their 1997 match, chess engines have only increased dramatically in strength and understanding. Today, the best chess engines are an almost incomprehensible 1,000 Elo points stronger than Deep Blue was at that time.
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10-year-old boy who once lived in a homeless shelter achieves remarkable title: chess master
Tanitoluwa "Tani" Adewumi, who once lived in a New York City homeless shelter, has achieved a remarkable title for someone his age: chess master.
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'The Queen's Gambit' is sparking a surge of interest in chess
David Bradley spends most weekends engaged in intense chess matches with his 15-year-old daughter, Zoe. They stare at the board for hours and plot their next moves, consumed by a new shared pastime. Their ongoing rivalry began this fall after the Toronto father and daughter began watching the "The Queen's Gambit," a Netflix miniseries about a female chess prodigy. Zoe had never played chess before but took to the game quickly, Bradley said.
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Can't Find A Chess Set? You Can Thank 'The Queen's Gambit' For That
Who'd have guessed that a centuries-old game would become 2020's hard-to-find, must-have toy? Sales spiked after the release of the hit Netflix show, and now toy analysts are warning of a shortage.
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How Anya Taylor-Joy mastered chess and her craft for Netflix's 'The Queen's Gambit'
When Anya Taylor-Joy arrived in Berlin last year to shoot Netflix’s limited series The Queen’s Gambit, she had just finished filming Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, with only one day off in between. Before that, she had just finished filming Autumn de Wilde’s Emma, with only one day off in between. Needless to say, she was a bit worn out.
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AI Ruined Chess. Now, It’s Making the Game Beautiful Again
A former world champion teams up with the makers of AlphaZero to test variants on the age-old game that can jolt players into creative patterns.
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16-year-old Iranian shocks chess world no.1 Magnus Carlsen to win $14,000 prize
A 16-year-old Iranian chess prodigy has upended the chess world by beating World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in the final of the Banter Blitz Cup.
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Opinion | This 8-Year-Old Chess Champion Will Make You Smile
Overcoming life’s basic truth: Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.
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