#chess #video of Anna #Cramling playing a blitz game and managing to come back from a bad position because her opponent blundered her queen
on 02026-01-15#video #toread #interview with Anna #Cramling for three hours about #chess, largely explaining the basics of the game.
on 02025-03-20#video of Anna #Cramling playing #chess against Alexandra Botez (of #BotezLive) in a tournament game; a 24-minute video about a four-hour game. Mostly talking about her feelings during the game. “I got crushed by Alexandra.”
on 02025-03-20#video on #chess streamer sisters #BotezLive answering most searched questions
on 02025-03-19#neural-networks can play #chess, even LLMs
on 02024-11-22David Duffy's notes on #chess, #AI, and the theory of representation, including that AlphaZero's open-source successor is “lz0” or “Leela”, with an ELO rating of 3400, much better than the best human. “Chess moves and positions on the chessboard concretely express the evolution and states of abstract entities in a virtual time and space, whose properties are chosen to simulate the concrete objects, actions and decisions of soldiers,” the author says, disagreeing with #Frege. Compares #Wittgenstein.
on 02020-11-18Ruy López’s 1561 #chess book, in Spanish, as an #ebook (Libro de la Invencion liberal y Arte del juego del Axedrez by Ruy López de Sigura). Digitized by Google Books from the Bayer Staatsbibliothek.
on 02016-10-07How to get better at #chess: study opening, midgame, and endgame separately.
on 02016-10-07standard material values in #chess are 1, 3, 3, 5, 9.
on 02016-10-07En passant capture in #chess is called “captura al paso” or “captura en paso” in Spanish.
on 02016-10-07#introduction to common #chess tactical motifs: pinning, skewering, underpromotion, sacrificing, etc.
on 02016-10-07#Introduction to #chess opening strategy, recommended highly on reddit
on 02016-10-07