First things first: Apart from a fractured finger, the young human chess prodigy — reported by NBC News to be “one of the top 30 chess players in Moscow under the age of 9” — is apparently ...

AlphaZero [a chess engine] woke people up to the fact that pushing the side pawns — the rook pawn and the even riskier knight's pawn — those have more value than humans had realized.

Some chess experts, at least, are thrilled by what’s to come. Sadler told me that he thinks engines will enable future human players to reach unprecedented levels of skill.

Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink has released a video purporting to show the first human subject using its brain implant to play chess on a laptop.

Watch Neuralink’s first human brain-chip patient play chess via thought By Trevor Mogg Published April 5, 2024 ...

The first human to be seen using a brain implant was livestreamed on the social platform X on Wednesday. Neuralink’s social media account showed 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh playing online chess ...