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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

German grandmaster's vast collection of chess memorabilia to be sold in London

Lothar Schmid's collection of over 50,000 chess artefacts, including 1972 World Championship memorabilia, is being auctioned at Sotheby's London, representing the largest private chess collection of its kind.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

A supercomputer beat a human chess champ 30 years ago, paving a path for AI dominance

In 1996 IBM's Deep Blue defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in a regulation chess game by calculating moves without fatigue or distraction.
fromWorld History Encyclopedia
5 months ago

The History Of Chess: A 1500-year-old Strategy Game

The game of chess has a particularly long and fascinating history of more than 1500 years. Over the centuries, there have also been hundreds of different chess variants, all of which incorporate the fundamental distinguishing feature of standard chess: the explicit individuation of different types of pieces with different values and movements to be jointly manipulated by each player towards the overarching objective of cornering the opponent's king.
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