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chess: Kaggle chess players (2010)
A network among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world’s top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is 1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black.
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3-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Chess Player with FIDE Rating
https://ground.news/article/3-year-old-becomes-youngest-chess-player-with-fide-rating_61431f

chess: Kaggle chess players (2010)
A network among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world’s top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is 1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black.
This network has 7301 nodes and 65053 edges.
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The vOICe web app is the richest functional vision option for the totally blind that is just one click away - no brain surgery, and for free https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm but yes, it's like learning a new language, or braille, or chess, or...

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
CROUPIER: Come on, my friends. Gather round. You are about to witness the most important spectacle in the history of sport.
KRANTOR: Friends and patrons! We have here a young trekker as you can see. His name is ... [Consults with the man] Thrills. And he is challenging the mighty Klute at speed chess. Your applause for his courage, please. [He leads Thrills to the speed chess table.]

chess: Kaggle chess players (2010)
A network among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world’s top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is 1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black.
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I don't think this chess game had any significance
Season 1 Episode 10 "The Cretin of the Shallows"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

So, on a lighter note, there might’ve been karaoke at the local pub yesterday and I might’ve have sung a few songs… including (for the first time ever) a song in Turkish (Şımarık by Tarkan) and one of my favourite songs from one of my favorite musicals: Pity the Child from Chess.
Sound quality: typical pub karaoke quality :)
https://vimeo.com…

Inside the coaching chess match at Super Bowl LX: Which staff holds the edge where it matters most?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2026-coaching-matchups-seah…

Saw a clip of a preacher retelling an anecdote about a chess grandmaster being shown a painting of the devil having apparently defeated his opponent at chess for his soul. The grandmaster studied the painting and saw that there was still a path to avoid a checkmate. So the painting contained a secret inspirational message of hope!
Yet when people accurately model the game state from Die Schachspieler and feed it into chess analysis algorithms, Mephistopheles always wins

Game of Life - Board position and Paul Morphy - Chess Forums
There is an painting "Checkmate" that depicts Satan playing against a young man. The board position is supposed to appear hopeless but it is said that Paul Morphy when seeing the painting studied the picture, called for a chess board to be set up and some time after declared the young man has not yet...

Which people? I want to see these people who’re asking Google what George Clooney’s favorite pie is.

chess: Kaggle chess players (2010)
A network among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world’s top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is 1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black.
This network has 7301 nodes and 65053 edges.
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"For Levy and Newborn, the stakes were clear, and the title of the first chapter of the book says it all: “The Challenge is World Champion Kasparov”. Said chapter describes in detail the match between a first iteration of a chess supercomputer by IBM, the less well-known “Deep Thought”. It was a strong contender, having defeated quite a few grandmasters along the way (including the aforementioned Levy), but was no match for Kasparov in August 1989."

David Levy & Monty Newborn
The literature about and around chess is too long to enumerate in an article of a thousand words, and this is clearly not my intent. If you want to learn chess, there are so many good books around, it is hard to pick just one. There are, however, fewer books explaining the art of how to teach a computer to play chess; and the one chosen for this issue of the Library section does a magnificent job at precisely that.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick
boxing.
-- Emo Philips

#caturday

chess: Kaggle chess players (2010)
A network among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world’s top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is 1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black.
This network has 7301 nodes and 65053 edges.
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Underwater chess is a thing!
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cd9ed29vg2eo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Underwater chess champions compete for world title
Using weighted pieces and magnetic boards, players of the hybrid sport must complete each move in one breath.

chess: Kaggle chess players (2010)
A network among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world’s top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is 1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black.
This network has 7301 nodes and 65053 edges.
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Becomes A Game of Chess | Dallas Cowboys 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Xecy9DiZY

FIDE allows Russian, Belarusian youth chess players to compete under national flags: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/fide-allows-russian-belarusian-youth.html

Child is abroad till January, chess.com app is pretty great.
Can do games with multi days between moves allowed so we can dip in and out between things and has a nice messaging feature to keep up to date.
Still surprised by the level of ability todays 8yo kids have vs when I was his age, I guess we were just not challenged to our abilities

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
such a creative take on chess. inspiring.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1972440/Shotgun_King_The_Final_Checkmate/

Randomly met the Witty Alien Chess creator of Alien Gambit fame in the security check at Gardermoen, He'd been in the taketaketake studio and was on his way home. Such a nice guy. Now onwards to Christmas Vacation somewhere warmer than Oslo 🥶

reading a prelim paper on scaling up gpu-accelerated database query engines and feeling kinda gobsmacked at where that world is at
i remember when we built a “massive” memory machine at princeton with … i think it was 256 MB of RAM. (it sat idle except when ken thompson was logged in and building hash tables for chess endgames which was most of the time)

Finished reading "Intermezzo" by Sally Rooney.
Two brothers wallow in their grief after their father's death. Peter, the lawyer, and Ivan, the chess player, struggle to connect across their ten-year age gap. Beautiful prose, but the endless navel-gazing introspection drags!
Ivan's growth is compelling, but the women—Margaret, Sylvia, Naomi—remain underdeveloped. Add to it a too-neat ending that undercuts the existential hand-wringing?
3/5 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Intermezzo
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and fami…

the "woke games detector"'s ULTRAKILL problem: there are some games they don't like just because the developer is vaguely progressive and the fandom is largely queer and makes a lot gay fanart of the characters but they have to come up with some 4d chess problem with the game itself
like ah yes the game about robot killing demons in hell and extracting their blood is woke because there's a blahaj easter egg and not because there's shitload of V1 x Gabriel yao…

The Bongcloud Attack (standard king's pawn advancement, then move the king up) is possibly the worst opening in #chess. In this tournament coverage video, it is used by one grandmaster against another. This was dubbed the "Bongcloud Countergambit: Hotbox Variation"

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It took me 3 seconds to realize how strong this kid is at chess - Dina Belenkaya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbHCeuMwLp8

Merry Christmas. Thanks for following. Whether it was a fancy hat, or the latest home computer, hope you got what you wanted.

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
GOLA: You said she let me win. [The Fool turns and winks at Tara]
VILA: No I didn't. I didn't say anything.
JENNA: [In an urgent whisper] Vila, shut up!
VILA: But I didn't say anything.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/352 B7B4…

Vibe coded a functional Go/chess clock at https://clock.covay.vn
It supports byoyomi, Canadian byoyomi and Fischer time. PWA. Installable on mobile devices. Best used on mobiles.