(Whether the fanfiction-to-published-novel route should be as well-trod is another book ... Algorithms Flattened Culture,” “what the Mechanical Turk could not actually do, however, was play ...

That algorithm values a delicate balance ... s defense with unholy fury. In their book, Sadler and Regan write that it’s important for chess masters to embrace early strategic pawn sacrifices ...

Chess pieces topple ... rambling passages in return. In the book, she intersperses its voice with her own, like pieces of found poems. Silva’s algorithm is less refined than today’s models ...

By the mid-2000s, though, upgrades in chess-engine software and commercial hardware made overpowering algorithms more accessible ... who has written multiple books on chess engines, told me.

The man was a chess god. Photograph Courtesy of W ... Ultimately, this isn’t a book about algorithms; this is a book about humans. It’s about how we fit into our own future, about how ...

The algorithm is so extraordinary ... the achievement was ‘one for the history books.’ “On the 6th of December, 2017, AlphaZero took over the chess world,” he said.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to the computer scientist and chess master whose algorithm reveals whether players are cheating at the game. Ken Regan is a kind of chess detective. He's a computer ...

He was self-taught and owns a lot of chess books. He joined several local chess ... cheaters both from player reports and alerts from algorithms, which the Fair Play team uses to help make banning ...