Blitz is a different beast. With only 3 or 5 minutes on the clock, you don’t have the luxury to sit and calculate five-move-deep tactics in the opening. You need something solid, something familiar, and most importantly – something fast. ...

Humans are better than machines. However, the advantages of humans over machines have been in steady retreat – we gave up on physical strength first, then on some mental capacities such as computation, and now we’re in the process of ...

“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim”, said Edsger Dijkstra, the famous Dutch computer scientist. I hope to convince you that this question is actually quite ...