Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king could be on one of 48 squares in the ...

Ding came up with effective manoeuvring of both his knights and queen-side rook. Looking at those dancing knights on the c5 and e5 square, Gukesh came with a reflexive human choice (15.Rd1 ...