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Duolingo Chess Players Soon Can Play Matches With Others

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 17:00:05

Android, it's your move. Language-learning app Duolingo announced Tuesday that it is launching its chess instruction to Android phones, three months after introducing the game to iOS devices. The company also said that it will be bringing a player-versus-player mode to iOS in the coming weeks. Duolingo announced the news Tuesday at its flagship conference Duocon, which is being held virtually on the Duolingo website. The company said a "very small percentage" of Duolingo customers had early ac

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Chess.com discloses recent data breach via file transfer app

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-13 01:51:37

Chess.com has disclosed a data breach after threat actors gained unauthorized access to a third-party file transfer application used by the platform. The incident occurred in June 2025, with the threat actors maintaining access to the said application for two weeks, between June 5 and June 18. Chess.com discovered the breach on June 19, 2025, and launched an investigation to determine its scope and impact. "On June 19, 2025, Chess.com became aware of potential unauthorized access to data stor

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What Is Complexity in Chess?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 03:45:33

Pacto Visual May 2020 an interesting proposal was suggested. I provided some constructive criticism on research paper A Metric of Chess Complexity by FM David Peng, as well as constructive criticism on the codebase used to validate this experiment. For many months I have refrained from further comment, and although code has not progressed, two things have: 1. Public interest in "complexity" as determined by ACPL (yuck). 2. Lichess has a blogging platform where I can properly address deficien

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I Can’t Stop Playing Duolingo Chess

wired.com Jaclyn Greenberg 2025-11-01 00:30:00

I’m embarrassed to admit this in my mid-forties, but I’ve never understood chess well enough to play a full game. My son and daughter both learned how to play in elementary school. I was glad they had that experience. I tried to pick up the game when they did, but, as a busy mom of three little kids, I just didn’t have the time, the interest, or the stamina to really sit down and learn. Chess became more popular during the pandemic, and the boom has stuck around; according to a recent Yougov.c

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OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-30 14:37:19

OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament 24 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has beaten Elon Musk's Grok in the final of a tournament to crown the best artificial intelligence (AI) chess player. Historically, tech companies have often used chess to assess the progress and abilities of a computer, with modern chess machines virtually unbeatable against even the top human players. But this competition did not involve

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What was the first computer to win a chess match against a world champion?

techspot.com Unknown 2025-12-09 12:40:00

Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. Correct Answer: IBM Deep Blue (1996) When Verizon bought AOL in 2015, how many people were still paying for dial-up Internet? IBM's Deep Blue became the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion under standard tournament time controls, a major milestone in both chess and artificial intelligence history. On February 10, 1996, Deep Blue won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov

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Chess grandmaster Carlsen wins at Esports World Cup

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-11 09:49:02

Chess grandmaster Carlsen wins at Esports World Cup The inclusion of chess in this year's schedule was somewhat controversial, but the tournament's organisers argued it counted as an esport as it is played by millions of people of all ages. The Esports World Cup (EWC) being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest multi-discipline tournaments in competitive professional gaming. Number one grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen, has won the inaugural online chess competition at the Esports Worl

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Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?

news.ycombinator.com Drew Breunig 2025-12-11 21:21:29

Recently, “the bitter lesson” is having a moment. Coined in an essay by Rich Sutton, the bitter lesson is that, “general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.” Why is the lesson bitter? Sutton writes: The bitter lesson is based on the historical observations that 1) AI researchers have often tried to build knowledge into their agents, 2) this always helps in the short term, and is personally satisfying to the researcher, but 3) in the long r

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Playing with more user-friendly methods for multi-factor authentication

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 22:04:58

When I tell people I work on authentication software, I nearly always hear some version of the same story: I hate multifactor authentication. No, really. People hate this stuff. So I spend a lot of time thinking about how we can make MFA a better user experience. We don't always need MFA to be airtight, after all. Sometimes, the Google match-a-number MFA flow is good enough. I thought I'd share here my best ideas for the future of multi-factor authentication. Here they are. The big blind We

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Google's AI Refuses to Even Play Chess Against 1977 Atari, After Hearing What It Did to Other Cutting-Edge AIs

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-17 21:12:49

The thing that AI models apparently fear the most? A game console released nearly fifty years ago. We are referring, of course, to the inimitable Atari 2600. Last month, the iconic system embarrassed the AI industry after it absolutely rinsed ChatGPT at a simple game of chess. It was a clash between a machine released in 1977, with 128 bytes of RAM, and a cutting-edge large language model with trillions of parameters, powered by however many thousands of graphics cards and billions of dollars

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Generative AI's crippling failure to induce robust models of the world

news.ycombinator.com Gary Marcus 2026-02-17 06:43:54

Synthesized video from Dawid van Straaten, prompt (“Generate me a video of two men playing chess”) in which the player for black reaches across the table and, in the midst of a rather unusual position moves his opponent’s pawn horizontally, and quite illegally, several squares across the board. A few weeks ago, I had the singular honor of recording a podcast (to be released soon) with one of my heroes, Garry Kasparov, not only one of the greatest chess players of all time, but also one of the b

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ChatGPT Just Got 'Absolutely Wrecked' at Chess, Losing to a 1970s-Era Atari 2600

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-19 04:05:34

OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major AI chatbot competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an engineer's experiment to see how it would fare playing chess against the AI chatbot. By using a software emulator to run Atari's 1979 game Video Chess, Citrix engineer Robert Caruso said he was able to set up a match between ChatGPT and the 46-year-old game. The matchup did not go well for

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ChatGPT gets crushed at chess by a 1 MHz Atari 2600

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2026-03-18 08:50:00

Editor's take: Despite being hailed as the next step in the evolution of artificial intelligence, large language models are no smarter than a piece of rotten wood. Every now and then, some odd experiment or test reminds everyone that so-called "intelligent" AI doesn't actually exist if you're living outside a tech company's quarterly report. A cycle-exact emulation of the Atari 2600 CPU running at a meager 1.19 MHz is more than enough to utterly humiliate ChatGPT in a game of chess. Citrix engi

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ChatGPT Defeated at Chess by 1970s-Era Atari 2600

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-19 17:38:00

OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an engineer's experiment to see how it would fare playing chess against the AI chatbot. By using a software emulator to run Atari's 1979 game Video Chess, Citrix engineer Robert Caruso said he was able to set up a match between ChatGPT and the 46-year-old game. The matchup did not go well for ChatGPT. "

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Research shows AI will try to cheat if it realizes it is about to lose

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-11-12 20:48:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Surprise! A recent study showed that some of the newest AI reasoning models aren't above cheating to achieve a goal. Computer scientists found that AI systems can now manipulate chess AIs to gain an unfair advantage. Some models did this without human interaction or prompting, raising concerns about the future integrity of AI-driven systems beyond the chessboard. A Palisade Research study found tha

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