The new dramatic film, “Pawn Sacrifice,” directed ... But, for these chess whizzes, computer ascendancy in chess does not spell the end of human competition. “Humans do not play like ...

Computers threatened to take the element of mystery out of the game, to reduce the flash of inspired brilliance to the whirring of an algorithm—and, as it seemed then, to render human ... of pieces.

In 1997, the most famous chess-playing automaton, IBM’s Deep Blue, decimated Garry Kasparov, then and now the world’s best human chess player, in a confrontation avidly followed around the globe.

In the position above, Carlsen castled and Nepomniachtchi ventured a pawn h5 ... more writing on chess and other games, check out Roeder’s new book, “Seven Games: A Human History,” available ...

Today, Regan says, “ordinary code running on our smartphones can destroy any human ... [a chess engine] woke people up to the fact that pushing the side pawns — the rook pawn and the even ...

It was as if a bottom seed had knocked out the top team in March Madness: At the Sinquefield Cup chess ... that human performance is measured in terms of “centipawn” (hundredths of a pawn ...

For the latest example of that sad-but-truism, see “Pawn Sacrifice ... that make him a brilliant chess player contribute to making him a miserable human being. At one point, one of his ...

Answer by Gaurav Dutta, chess fan: For me ... in response to White’s Queen’s pawn opening (d5). The game continued with the Stonewall Variation. 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e6 4.