What happens when you combine the brute-force computing power of Stockfish with the positional understanding of AlphaZero (or Leela Chess Zero)? The chess world is about to find out! Starting July 20 at 8 a.m. Pacific / 17:00 Central Europe poss...
Making an appearance in Lex Fridman's Artificial Intelligence Podcast, DeepMind's David Silver gave lots of insights into the history of AlphaGo and AlphaZero and deep reinforcement learning in general. Today, the finals of the Chess.c...
In round three GM Ding Liren countered GM Fabiano Caruana's preparation and won his first game in the FIDE Candidates Tournament in Yekaterinburg. GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Wang Hao lead going into the first rest day. ...
In news reminiscent of the initial AlphaZero shockwave last December, the artificial intelligence company DeepMind released astounding results from an updated version of the machine-learning chess project today. The results leave no question, on...
Chess changed forever today. And maybe the rest of the world did, too. A little more than a year after AlphaGo sensationally won against the top Go player, the artificial-intelligence program AlphaZero has obliterated the highest-rated...
For the second installment of "In Other News," we take a small liberty. Usually these stories only go back a few weeks, but in the case of one presidential candidate and his chess-playing exploits, below you'll find a story from 2014. You'...
Lots of chess events always take place during the Christmas and New Year holidays. This report sums up the major ones. Naiditsch Repeats Swiss Double In December 2014 he did it with a German flag at his board, and last month he repeated his su...
Chess engines may not really need warmups, but the strongest chess engine of all time, Komodo (currently rated 3368) found time in its busy schedule for just that. Komodo successfully defeated GM Victor Mikhalevski 5-1 in an odds ma...
Despite showing signs of rustiness GM Garry Kasparov leads 3.5-1.5 in his rapid & blitz match with GM Nigel Short, who made a bushed impression after traveling from Thailand and defending his gender column to dozens of media. Dubbed the &ldq...
Four players are tied for first place at the Rilton Cup with three rounds to go: GM Michal Krasenkow, GM Nils Grandelius, GM Michael Roiz and GM Tiger Hillarp Persson. The Rilton Cup is named after Tore Rilton, who was born July 18, 1904 in Goth...
Igor Lysyj won the top group of the International RSSU Chess Cup on Sunday in Moscow, Russia. The festival, formerly known as the Moscow Open, had more than 1400 participants from 26 countries, among them approximately 95 GMs and 70 IMs. Winner in...
The International RSSU Chess Cup in Moscow (previewed here) ends on Sunday after a busy week, featuring many different competitions. The impressive chess festival has two separate round-robin competitions for 10 young men and women players, and a...
Second mover's winning percentage has exceeded that of First mover for the professional Japanese chess games of the fiscal year 2008(April 2008 through March 2009). It's the first time since Japan Shogi Association started stats since 1967. Here i...
Japan Shogi Association unveiled the list of top 20 shogi professional player list regarding their annual earnings from professional shogi tournaments for 2008(in Japanese). I'm picking up the top 10 from that here. The amount of each player is ob...
According to the toppage in Japanese of Computer Shogi(Japanese chess) Association, the source file of the engine of Bonanza developed by Hoki Kunihito became downloadable from its library on January 27. I'm not sure how big this is to people in c...
The veteran American IM Larry Kaufman (pictured) has won the 2008 Senior World Chess Championship, held in Bad Zwischenahn, Germany. By winning the title, he automatically becomes a GM! Congratulations Larry! Over 300 entrants aged over 60 batt...
As promised we're now returning once more to the Czech Republic to do a final report on the 18th Czech Open Festival held in the CEZ Arena in the town of Pardubice. The chess part of this huge festival is probably the biggest annual event in the w...
Toen ik?Ǭ†de uitslagen van het Deens Kampioenschap?Ǭ†van dit jaar bekeek, viel me op dat er geen enkele remise in de uitslagentabel te vinden was! Dat Denen met hun Vikingachtergrond aanvallend ingesteld zijn, was mij bekend, maar dit vond ik to...
