Filterworld — the addictive and stultifying algorithm-driven apocalypse that we are all, according to New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka, living through — began not with a big bang but with a chess ...

The chess algorithm, ... “There is an abundance of books, blogs and papers all waiting to be learnt from,” the team points out. hide. by Will Knight. Share. Share story on linkedin.

Book: How Not to Play Chess. Author: Eugene Znosko-Borovsky. This is an awesome, underrated book that caught my attention recently - instead of teaching you what to do, it teaches you what not to do.

Of these millions of moves, Stockfish picks what it sees as the very best one—with “best” defined by a complex, hand-tuned algorithm co-designed by computer scientists and chess grandmasters.

Three books explore the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. A metronome ticks. A record spins. And as a feel-good pop track plays, a giant compactor slowly crushes a Jenga tower of ...

World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov makes a move in New York during his fourth game against the IBM Deep Blue chess computer in 1997. ... Ultimately, this isn’t a book about algorithms; ...