In August 2023, the world chess federation FIDE seemed to have suddenly imposed a temporary ban on trans women’s participation in women’s tournaments. The uproar seemed overblown to me and based on careless reading of the regulation, but after a minor change in that regulation, I’m not sure what the intention was either. An attempt to sort some things out.
Tag: chess
It’s just a (board) game
Artificial intelligence is almost nowhere more tangible than in the world of board games, such as chess and go. What is behind it?
Playing chess with a dead man – Maroczy vs Korchnoi
From 1985 until 1993 two chess grandmasters, Viktor Korchnoi and Géza Maróczy, played a correspondence game. Quite remarkable because Maróczy had already been dead for more than thirty years when the game began.