Morocco beat Canada 3-0 in the Round of 16. Brazil lost 2-1 to Norway in the same round and went home. Yet Brazil remain 5th in the FIFA rankings and Morocco stay 6th.

Patience, discipline and mental stamina improve as one plays chess. In tournaments, games may last for several hours, and players need to stay focused while evaluating different possibilities. After ...

With the closure of the doors of the tournament room, the pressure mounted. It appeared that my first opponent had already thought of the next few moves. Seeing that I was feeling the pressure, my mom ...

A research team from northwestern China has released a new algorithm that could fundamentally change how drone swarms hunt and destroy enemy targets. The algorithm, known as HG-STR (Heterogeneous ...

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces are fixed, top players have relied on memorizing the "best" opening moves, ...

In the early years of computational physics, starting during the Second World War, the discipline and its practitioners did not yet have a name. Iulia Georgescu tells the story of these forgotten ...

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On a recent Friday afternoon, Magnus Carlsen, the best chess player in the world, showed up at the World Rapid Championships, on Wall Street, in New York, wearing a blazer, dress shoes, and jeans.

Ceres is a strong UCI chess engine that uses the Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm and deep neural networks. Importantly, Ceres also intended a comprehensive software platform for chess engine ...