"Under the eyes of IBM" Kasparov vs.. Deep Blue - YouTube.

Interesting article on the difficulty of chess and its depth:

"In recent weeks I have been pondering why chess is a game so difficult and I have come to a conclusion that would call definitive. To do this, I must first explain some issues.
All problems can be defined via a description or representation of knowledge of a small world (called micro), which may or may not meet certain goals. Remitámonos the problem of representing the tree of variants in a game of chess. Here we create a tree that starts at ...

Article found on the internet, I found quite interesting:

When chess compare the "power play" between men and women, statistically it is found that the women of ancient sport practitioners are sex "really weak" and we must admit, but how can we explain?.

Anatoly Karpov for the GM, is "a mystery of humanity" that the level of chess checkers game is lower than the knights, as stated by [approximately 1984] to the Spanish magazine Jaque.

We believe that this mystery could be solved if we studied ...

The fact that every day chess becomes more study and less technical, more improvisation is used less and it is all theory but, today I teach an alternative, I particularly love the idea.
Fischer Random Chess is a chess variant proposed by Bobby Fischer in which the starting position of the pieces is determined randomly, with certain restrictions. It was announced on June 19, 1996, in the Passage Dardo Rocha of the city of La Plata, Argentina. He was also named ...

A curiosity I've just read:
"Right after the two chess players execute their first movement, opening many possibilities of play. Specifically, there are 400 possible positions on the board. After the second round, there are 197,742 possible games. And after three moves, there are 121 million.
Thus, the number of different items that can develop in a game so seemingly simple as chess far exceeds a 1 followed by 100,000 zeros, ie, higher than all the atoms in the universe.
Possible items ...

As far as cheating is concerned, the chess may seem almost invulnerable. In the final analysis, the board and its pieces are on view. But recent scandals have made it clear that cheating-promoted by powerful software that plays better than humans, as well as complex communication technologies, are becoming a problem in the world chess championships.
Last year, the French Chess Federation accused three players of colluding with each other during the Chess Olympiad held in ...

Chess is often associated with good things, with reason. Advertisers take advantage of their image when they can, but few know how many tangible benefits associated with their practice. Let's look at ten of the benefits of chess (by the way they cite many more), recently collected in this blog and in a number of scientific studies.
1. Raise your IQ
Do people have a predisposition chess smart or smarter people get through the game? When solving the chicken and the egg can entertain you with this dilemma. ...