To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

Abstract: Alpha-beta-based search is used in the game of Chinese dark chess, which is stochastic and has perfect information. To efficiently determine a good move, an evaluation function needs to be ...

Abstract: The computer chess is an important research direction of artificial intelligence. Amazon chess game is an extremely complicated strategy game and the search algorithm relies heavily on the ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher took a break from navigating their onstage rivalries to engage in some (mostly) friendly competition. Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

The Russian chess master accused by his peers of bullying Daniel Naroditsky, the U.S. grandmaster who was found dead last week, has himself been hit with unfounded cheating allegations in the past — a ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, died Monday. He was 29. The Charlotte Chess Center in ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...