9 Best Articles in 2022
Aeon+Psyche
Playing chess is an essential life lesson in concentration
Aeon+Psyche
~11 min read · From 2020 · The challenge of chess – learning how to hold complexity in mind and still make good decisions – is also the challenge of life
Reader View · Shared by 304, including Julien Bilger, Cameron Yick, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦, Miguel Angel Escotet, Bilal Aslam, Faik Ersoy, Anita Leirfall, Liv 😷, Jakub Albert Ferenc, Mario Clemente, Jesús Torres 👩💻, Logical Analysis, Noah Toly, John Hagel, Ward Plunet
Chess.com
Chess.com - Play Chess Online
Chess.com
3 min read · From 2017 · Play chess on Chess.com - the #1 chess community with millions of members around the world. Fun stats, analysis, and training tools for players of all levels.
Reader View · Shared by 673, including Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Polina, BrendanEich, Mathew Ingram, Charles Arthur, Colin Wright, Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン, Britney Muller 🇺🇦, Paul Kedrosky, Kent Bye VoicesOfVR, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Scott Hanselman 🇺🇦, Lynne Murphy, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, emily bell, Una 👩🏻💻🇺🇦, Dan Cederholm, Andy Budd, Noah Kagan, Crypto Bitlord
FiveThirtyEight
We Taught Computers To Play Chess — And Then They Left Us Behind
FiveThirtyEight
4 min read · Jan 25th · The chess machines never stop playing.
Reader View · Shared by 193, including Sara Ziegler, Oliver Roeder, John Hagel
WIRED
AI Ruined Chess. Now, It's Making the Game Beautiful Again
WIRED
5 min read · 2020-09-10 · 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.
Shared by 215, including Jennifer Ouellette, AIKing.Eth - Vincent Boucher, Martin Ford, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Sai Kan, Howard Getson, Christopher D. Long (Крістофер Д. Лонг), Nige Willson, ipfconline, Logical Analysis, Jeff Heuer, Nicolas Babin, l. ones, Brian Ahier, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Merkstatt, Backchannel, Kirk Borne
WIRED
A Bird-Feed Seller Beat a Chess Master Online. Then It Got Ugly
WIRED
2 min read · 2021-03-12 · Twitch and YouTube chess star Levy Rozman has faced over a week of sustained harassment after calling out an alleged cheater.
Shared by 127, including Ben Jones, Trae Blain, Howard Getson, Nicolas Babin, Kara Swisher, Christopher D. Long (Крістофер Д. Лонг), Backchannel, Mathew Ingram
MIT Technology Review
Instead of practicing, this AI mastered chess by reading about it
MIT Technology Review
2 min read · From 2019 · Machines that appreciate “brilliant” and “dumb” chess moves could learn to play the game—and do other things—more efficiently.
Reader View · Shared by 47, including Vinod Sharma, Logical Analysis, Ward Plunet, Gerrit Eicker, John Hagel, Vikram Dutt, Bas Grasmayer, Mike Tamir, PhD
DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
My Experience Building A Chess App In React
DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
~13 min read · Mar 12th · My Experience Building A Chess App In React Hi, my name is Fred and I’m a chess player who has been...
Reader View · Shared by 85, including Matthew Turland
ESPN
Why grandmasters like Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana lose weight playing chess
ESPN
8 min read · From 2019 · You wouldn't think that chess players, who sit for hours on end and only extend their arms from time to time, would struggle with weight loss. But they do. Inside the very real, very bizarre metabolic…
Reader View · Shared by 109, including Britney Muller 🇺🇦, Vikram Dutt, Gretchen Rubin, Felix Salmon, Howard Getson, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Jane, Kiki, Chris Bailey, British Psychological Society, Robert Lepenies, Perry Marshall, Atul Gawande
Big Think
Theory of mind: What chess and drug dealers can teach you about manipulation
Big Think
3 min read · Jun 3rd · From grandmasters to drug dealers, people who make deft use of "theory of mind" can remain several steps ahead of their rivals.
Reader View · Shared by 720, including Marsha Collier, Howard Getson, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos
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Big Think
Theory of mind: What chess and drug dealers can teach you about manipulation
Big Think
3 min read · Jun 3rd · From grandmasters to drug dealers, people who make deft use of "theory of mind" can remain several steps ahead of their rivals.
Reader View · Shared by 720, including Marsha Collier, Howard Getson, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos
Rest of World
‘We just wanted to play chess’: Russia blocks access to Chess.com
Rest of World
4 min read · May 3rd · A government agency limited access after the chess platform condemned the Ukraine war.
Reader View · Shared by 27, including Colin Wright, Mathew Ingram, Michael Donohoe
The Ringer
The Celtics and Bucks Are Playing 3-and-D Chess
The Ringer
6 min read · May 4th · Boston and Milwaukee look like they are headed for a long series, and one that will likely be decided from the perimeter. While the Celtics are firing from deep at a historic rate, the Bucks are still…
Reader View · Shared by 67
NDTV
Teenage Chess Prodigy R Praggnanandhaa Beats World Champion Magnus Carlsen For 2nd Time This Year
NDTV
1 min read · May 21st · R Praggnanandhaa, 16-year-old chess prodigy, stunned world champion Magnus Carlsen for the second time this year.
Shared by 8, including Akshat Rathi
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chesstactics.org
Chess tactics explained.
chesstactics.org
1 min read · From 2020 · This site teaches chess in words. It has two parts. 1. The first part is a book that explains chess tactics (that is, how to make winning moves). It assumes no prior knowledge of the subject.…
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gautamnarula.com
How to Get Good at Chess, Fast
gautamnarula.com
From 2015 · How to Get Good at Chess, Fast A step-by-step guide to rapid chess improvement Last updated: March 1, 2016 Edit: This article was unexpectedly popular, reaching #2 on Hacker News and being linked t…
Reader View · Shared by 37, including Adam Wilson, Thomas Telandro, Anthony J Lopes, Philippe Gauvin
MIT Technology Review
Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level
MIT Technology Review
8 min read · From 2015 · In a world first, a machine plays chess by evaluating the board rather than using brute force to work out every possible move.
Reader View · Shared by 40, including Data Science Renee, Marco Unternaehrer, ThomNagy, Martina Grolimund, Dominik Grolimund
NPR
We Talk 'Queen's Gambit' With Chess Expert And Tiny Desk Winner Linda Diaz
NPR
5 min read · 2020-11-06 · Linda Diaz, who won this year's Tiny Desk Contest at NPR Music, is a chess expert and international chess champion. She sat down to talk with us about the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit.
Reader View · Shared by 33, including Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
The New York Times
7 min read · From 2018 · The stunning success of AlphaZero, a deep-learning algorithm, heralds a new age of insight — one that, for humans, may not last long.
Reader View · Shared by 124, including Azeem Azhar, Liv 😷, Moritz A. Mihatsch, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Brian T. Edwards, Mathew Ingram, Kevin Kelly, Avinash Kaushik, Scott McLeod, George Zachary, Merkstatt, Javi Cantón
gautamnarula.com
How to Get Good at Chess, Fast: A simple, step-by-step guide to rapid chess improvement
gautamnarula.com
From 2017 · A guide to rapid chess improvement that shows how to gain rating points with minimal effort by explaining which books and software to use and how to study
Reader View · Shared by 31, including Alain, Philippe Gauvin
The Guardian
Check mates: how chess saved my mental wellbeing
The Guardian
9 min read · 2021-12-26 · Sam Parker’s grandfather taught him to love chess, a joy he rediscovered in the pandemic, along with a deeper understanding of its positive effects on mental and emotional health
Reader View · Shared by 75
The New York Review of Books
The Chess Master and the Computer by Garry Kasparov
The New York Review of Books
~15 min read · From 2015 · In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I walked from one machine to the next, making my moves over a period of more than five hours. The four leading chess computer manufacturers had sent their top models, including eight […]
Reader View · Shared by 72, including Stowe Boyd, Morten Gade, adrianoesch
tomcapital.ch
How does a machine learn chess? Surprisingly, very much like a human being!
tomcapital.ch
5 min read · Jan 23rd · How does a machine learn chess? Surprisingly, very much like a human!
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