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This is the second developpement update for black-mesa alpha zero! Second map have been released in early acess on steam! mod db for download will come soon!

Chess is the most popular it has ever been in New Zealand new players are picking up the pieces every year. It's hit somewhat of a sweet spot in popular media with the success of Netflix series The Queen's Gambit and with the internet providing a space for any enthusiast group in the world to connect. The New Zealand Chess Federation's 129th NZ Chess Congress is underway right now and the national final is being held later today! It all sounds pretty exciting and we wanted to find ou...

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Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books about chess training and chess strategy. In the 48th instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman shows how to use "the target on g6" to build up an attack. | Photo: Tommy Grooten

€29.90 As you surely know, in chess, as in other fields, it is important to study the past. But why is this the case? Well, there are several reasons. First of all, it is about understanding why something took place several years ago, under what conditions it was played, what foundations were laid and for what benefit or meaning it had, how old masters thought, on the basis of which principles they judged the position and what effects the "work" of the old chess school has on ...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. A standard smartphone can now play the kind of moves that make a grandmaster’s head spin. But one artificial intelligence program is taking a few steps backward, to appreciate how average humans play—blunders and all. The AI chess program, known as Maia, uses the kind of cutting-edge AI behind the best superhuman chess-playing pr...