The world's top chess player defeated ChatGPT in an online match in only 53 moves. Magnus Carlsen won the game without losing a single piece, while ChatGPT lost all its pawns, screenshots the Norwegian grandmaster shared on X on July 10 showed. "I sometimes get bored while travelling," Carlsen captioned the post. "That was methodical, clean, and sharp. Well played!" ChatGPT said to him, according to the screenshots Carlsen posted.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Magnus Carlsen is an undisputed titan in the world of chess. In 2011 at the age of 19, the Swedish grandmaster became the youngest person to ever top the International Chess Federation (FIDE) world rankings--a position he's occupied ever since. Carlsen holds the record for the highest official rating level in history, and currently trails only Gary Kasparov for the longest time spent as the sport's highest ranking player. So what would it take for the everyday chess enthusiast to give him a run for his money?

A few weeks ago, I witnessed Google Search make what could have been the most expensive error in its history. In response to a query about cheating in chess, Google's new AI Overview told me that the young American player Hans Niemann had "admitted to using an engine," or a chess-playing AI, after defeating Magnus Carlsen in 2022--implying that Niemann had confessed to cheating against the world's top-ranked player. Suspicion about the American's play against Carlsen that September indeed sparked controversy, one that reverberated even beyond the world of professional chess, garnering mainstream news coverage and the attention of Elon Musk. Except, Niemann admitted no such thing. Quite the opposite: He has vigorously defended himself against the allegations, going so far as to file a 100 million defamation lawsuit against Carlsen and several others who had accused him of cheating or punished him for the unproven allegation--Chess.com, for example, had banned Niemann from its website and tournaments.

We propose a neural network-based approach to calculate the value of a chess square-piece combination. Our model takes a triplet (Color, Piece, Square) as an input and calculates a value that measures the advantage/disadvantage of having this piece on this square. Our methods build on recent advances in chess AI, and can accurately assess the worth of positions in a game of chess. The conventional approach assigns fixed values to pieces $(\symking=\infty, \symqueen=9, \symrook=5, \symbishop=3, \symknight=3, \sympawn=1)$. We enhance this analysis by introducing marginal valuations. We use deep Q-learning to estimate the parameters of our model. We demonstrate our method by examining the positioning of Knights and Bishops, and also provide valuable insights into the valuation of pawns. Finally, we conclude by suggesting potential avenues for future research.

He makes it sound like we're virtually certain to all be killed by a superintelligent AI in the not-too-distant future. Here, I'll explain why I'm not freaking out as much as Eliezer Yudkowsky. AI researchers have a history of exaggerated predictions. Science fiction stories were similarly off. The highly intelligent HAL 9000 computer imagined by Arthur C. Clarke was supposed to exist in 2001.

Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology use has been rising in sports. For example, to reduce staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, major tennis tournaments replaced human line judges with Hawk-Eye Live technology. AI is now ready to move beyond such mundane tasks, however. A case in point and a perfect application ground is chess. To reduce the growing incidence of draws, many elite tournaments have resorted to fast chess tiebreakers. However, these tiebreakers are vulnerable to strategic manipulation, e.g., in the last game of the 2018 World Chess Championship, Magnus Carlsen -- in a significantly advantageous position -- offered a draw to Fabiano Caruana (whom accepted the offer) to proceed to fast chess tiebreaks in which Carlsen had even better odds of winning the championship. By contrast, we prove that our AI-based method can serve as a judge to break ties without being vulnerable to such manipulation. It relies on measuring the difference between the evaluations of a player's actual move and the best move as deemed by a powerful chess engine. If there is a tie, the player with the higher quality measure wins the tiebreak. We generalize our method to all competitive sports and games in which AI's superiority is -- or can be -- established.

Ever since he beat the greatest chess player who ever lived, Hans Niemann has been called a cheat. The 19-year-old's surprising victory over Magnus Carlsen in St. Louis on September 4 led to accusations that he'd been taking cues from a chess-playing AI, or chess "engine." Niemann later admitted to having done just that on two occasions--both times when he was even younger, and while he was playing chess online. But he'd beaten Carlsen fairly, he insisted. For weeks now, chess experts have been trying to assess that claim, posting what they've found on social media.

A cheating scandal that rocked the world of chess in the past month has led to controversy over the significance of high-level artificial intelligence games. This controversy led to our main question Is AI really destroying chess? Before you go to conclusion, first, let's go through the story. In March, the five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen dropped out of the tournament after only playing one piece against the rising teenage player Hans Niemann. In the following days, Carlsen formally accused Neimann of cheating, sparking an issue that was simmering for months.

It's the story that has rocked chess and shown no sign of abating. The cheating scandal which has engulfed the sport, involving five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, is all anyone is talking about. On Monday, Carlsen explicitly accused fellow grandmaster and rival Hans Niemann of cheating for the first time in a lengthy statement on Twitter. The accusation comes weeks after the Norwegian withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 19 following his surprise defeat to the American. "When Niemann was invited last minute to the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, I strongly considered withdrawing prior to the event. I ultimately chose to play," Carlsen wrote.

It's the story that has rocked chess and shown no sign of abating. The cheating scandal which has engulfed the sport, involving five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, is all anyone is talking about. On Monday, Carlsen explicitly accused fellow grandmaster and rival Hans Niemann of cheating for the first time in a lengthy statement on Twitter. The accusation comes weeks after the Norwegian withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 19 following his surprise defeat to the American. "When Niemann was invited last minute to the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, I strongly considered withdrawing prior to the event. I ultimately chose to play," Carlsen wrote.