Experts argue that by playing chess, students can learn valuable skills that can benefit them in the classroom.

My own son began asking to learn how to play chess around Brownscombe’s optimal age of seven or eight. But since I myself didn’t know how to play, I avoided the request for a while.

DeepMind's researchers are letting AlphaZero play with different rules to find out how to improve the game.

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In a preprint paper, researchers at Alphabet's DeepMind detail MuZero, an algorithm that effectively teaches itself how to play Atari and board games.