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When two of the most advanced AI models lost to a 1979 chess game, it exposed how sounding smart isn’t the same as actually ...
e4 (King's Pawn Opening) tends to start the game with a bang, leading to positions with pieces flying out fast and furious ...
India’s Koneru Humpy beat Uzbekistan’s Afruza Khamdamova with black pieces while emerging talent Vantika Agrawal humbled Anna ...
For its part, Video Chess is very basic chess software, even if creating a working engine within 4KB is its own kind of ...
Chess: Poisoned pawn traps So’s queen on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save. Leonard Barden. Jump to comments section Print this page. The second American Cup, a $200,000 event at St Louis ...
A pawn race occurs when both sides have passed pawns, and each side rushes to promote their pawn to a Queen. In a pawn race, every tempo (a single move) counts. Again, the king's activity and the ...
For instance, moving the pawn in front of the queen two squares forward, from D2 to D4, is a popular chess opener. About three-quarters of the players in the study, roughly 110,000 individuals ...
Tuesday's pizza break. “ When you see a pawn you should see potential,” Trimble said. “ They are all pawns with potential and power if they make the right choices, and I want them to see that.” If ...
Cuban Yerisbel Miranda conceded today her second consecutive defeat to Uzbekistan's Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova and was eliminated from the Women's Chess World Cup 2025, in Batumi, Georgia.
If you don’t complete this chess puzzle, released in the twilight of the “Heresy” episode, you can’t help the community solve the larger picture. So we’re here to help explain it and ...