Chess or video games—which actually makes you smarter? The answer may surprise you.

Games don’t make you smarter, but they can support your brain, regardless of your age. Different games sharpen different ...
Salon

Chess is taking over the online video game world — and both are changing from this unlikely pairing

As a global pandemic continues to determine a new normal, tens of thousands of viewers have been tuning in to watch people play chess on a livestreaming website called Twitch.tv. An American chess ...
techtimes

Elon Musk Mocks Chess—Claiming This Strategic Video Game is Way Better; What is 'Polytopia?'

In an exclusive interview with Elon Musk, the billionaire claimed that chess is a very simple game. A detailed view of the board and pieces including the Queen, King, Knight, Bishop, Rook and Pawn ...
Kotaku

A Video Game Version of Chess That Changes the Rules Every Time You Play

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Look at that glorious mess up there. “That’s not chess,” you say. Damn right, it’s chess on drugs. Get this game another hit of the good stuff, ...
TweakTown

Ancient video game from 1979 beats ChatGPT in a chess game

TL;DR: In a surprising experiment, Atari 2600's 1979 chess game outperformed ChatGPT despite its 1.19 MHz CPU and limited move evaluation. The AI struggled with basic chess notation and made critical ...
The Conversation

Chess is taking over the online video game world – and both are changing from this unlikely pairing

I receive funding from the University of California Riverside. I am the principal investigator of an ongoing ethnographic study of gamers in their community on Twitch. In my work, I explore gamers as ...