Category: chess
Celebrate: Checkers is solved!
In today’s Science online: wonderful title, wonderful article, wonderful research. Took quite a while, but the victory is sweet indeed…
“If two players face off at checkers and neither makes a wrong move, then the game will inevitably end in a draw.
→ Read more Final rankings of the MTel Chess Tournament
I blogged about this chess tournament from Sofia a while ago. Then it was just at the beginning and Dieter Nisipeanu was not doing bad at all. Unfortunately Nisipeanu lost to Adams in round 3 and my prediction for him winning the tournament was really conditional on a win there :-).
→ Read more Nisipeanu has got a great chance
Probably everybody who follows chess competitions knows this already, but anyways, I will still remind you that Dieter Nisipeanu is doing very well at the ongoing “M-Tel Masters” International Super Chess Tournament, from Sofia.
→ Read more Russian politics: chess or judo?
This is an interesting weekend interview in the WSJ with Garry Kasparov, who is apparently taking very seriously his role as ‘moderator’ for the “Other Russia” coalition (moderator so far; as the editor notes, Kasparov does not necessarily exclude representing the “Other Russia” as its presidential candidate, with hopes of checkmating Putin).
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