AlphaZero's stunning victory over chess engine Stockfish raises hopes of Artificial Intelligence's positive impact on royal game.

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2019 Grand Prix: Where Chess Meets Start-up Nations

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Interview with Alexander Lyashuk about the recent success of Lc0

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Stockfish has a slight lead over Leela Chess Zero after 5 of the last 10 games were decisive in the TCEC final, but it looks clear that self-taught chess engines like LCZero (following in the footsteps of AlphaZero) are going to dominate soon:

Problem chess with Pal Benko.

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Happy birthday to the world's oldest grandmaster Yuri Averbakh, who turned 97 today! 🎂🎉🎁

⚫️#134 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Foisor,Sabina-Francesca (2264)
🔸Stefanova,Antoaneta (2490)
🔸WCh Women 2018 Khanty-Mansiysk RUS

21...Nxe4! [A well-calculated exchange that leads to a winning position for Black.]

22.Bxe4 [22.fxe4 Ne3 23.Qd2 Nxc2 24.Qxc2 Bxe4–+]

22...Ne3 23.Qd3 Bxe4 24.Qxe3 [24.fxe4 Ng4–+]

24...Bd5–+ [Black's connected passed pawns are much better than the opponent's ones.]

0–1

⚪️ #134 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Erdogdu,M (2406)
🔸Soysal,Serkan (2415)
🔸ch-TUR 2018 Belek TUR

51.Ng2? [51.g5! Bc8 52.Ng4+ Kf5 53.Rf6+ Kxg5 54.Rf8 Rxg7 55.Rxc8 Nh4 56.Nce3 Rf7 57.Rg8+ Ng6 58.Rd8 Nh4 59.Rxd6 Rf3+ 60.Kh2 Nf5 61.Nxf5 Rxf5 62.Nh6 Rf2+ 63.Kg1 Rf3 64.Kg2 Rxa3 65.Nf7+ Kf5 66.Re6 Rb3 67.Nd6+ Kf4 68.Rxe4+; 51.Nf1? Nd4 52.Nxd4 cxd4 53.Nd2 d3 54.Rg5+ Kd4 55.Kf4 e3 56.Nf3+ Kxc4 57.Kxe3 Kc3 58.Nd2 Be8 59.Ne4+ Kc2 60.Rf5 Rxg7 61.Rf2+ Kb3 62.Nxd6 Bg6 63.Nf5 Rd7 64.Kd4 Kxa3 65.Ne3 d2 66.Rxd2 Kb3 67.Rf2 a3 68.Nc4 Bf7 69.Rf3+ Kb4 70.Nxa3 Rxd5+ 71.Ke4 Be6 72.Nc2+ Kc5=]

51...Nd4 52.Nce3 Be8 53.Rh6 Rxg7= 54.Nf4 Bf7 55.Rh8 Rg8 56.Rh7 Kf6 57.Rh6+ Ke5

½–½

⚪️#135 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Bok,B (2643)
🔸Gorovets,A (2509)
🔸PRO League Group Stage chess.com INT

Unity Chess Strategy Multiple Choice 135
public poll

A) Nd2 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 91%
Nikhil, @mn_aut, @Somebody_Sophia, @A_Wild_Richard, Taha, Atharva, @asisnitin, Michael, Hansika, Zhenrui

C) Nh4 – 1
👍 9%
@Lornyellor

B) Nf4
▫️ 0%

👥 11 people voted so far.

⚪️ #135 (Endgame-‌White to Move)
🔸Erdogdu,M (2406)
🔸Sevgi,V (2296)
🔸ch-TUR 2018 Belek TUR

Unity Chess Endgame Multiple Choice 135
public poll

B) Qb5 – 11
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 79%
@Op2229, @Mey_ro, @Zamani9899, Nikhil, @mn_aut, @RichardPeng, Amirmohammad, Atharva, @asisnitin, Michael, Hansika

C) Bc5 – 2
👍 14%
@Lornyellor, @arash22_d

A) a3 – 1
👍 7%
@Somebody_Sophia

👥 14 people voted so far.

Yuri Averbakh, in play during 1st round of the USA-USSR match, New York 1954.

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