Checkers, the ancient game which was quite easy to learn, has been solved. Along with other classical games, such as Connect Four and Qubic, the game has been pronounced dead. It was killed by Jonathan Schaeffer, who made the computer checkers program ‘Chinook’....
Hoe een kleurenblinde jongen de allerbeste werd – Interview met Mats Valk
Het is een leuke party trick: het oplossen van een Rubik’s kubus, en dan het liefst zo snel mogelijk. Voor de 23-jarige Mats Valk, tweevoudig wereldrecordhouder en Europees kampioen speedcubing, is het echter wel meer dan dat. Wekelijks is hij urenlang bezig met het...
Predicting outcomes of tennis matches
[latexpage] In the article posted 4 weeks ago about the dark side of the tennis world I talked about how vulnerable the tennis sport is to match fixing. Bets can even be placed on every single point. However, is there a way to predict the outcome of matches and maybe...
AlphaZero: the new king of chess
It may seem like a guy with a really curious last name gave his child an even weirder first name, but AlphaZero is actually the name of the computer program developed by DeepMind (owned by Google). This year, this program managed to shock the chess world by beating...
The dark side of the tennis world
August 2 2007, Nikolay Davydenko plays against Martin Vassallo Arguello in an official ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) tournament in Poland. During this match, Davydenko was ranked fourth in the world rankings, while Arguello was ranked 87th. Meanwhile,...
Introduction to Mathematical Cycling
It is a remarkable sport, time trial cycling. It seems comparable to road racing and at the same time it has nothing to do with it. In a road race one tries to conserve energy as long as possible, while during a time trial you want to use all the power you have got...
Citius, Altius, Fortius – Blijven we records breken?
"Citius, Altius, Fortius" is het motto van de Olympische Spelen. Het betekent “Sneller, Hoger, Sterker” en het lijkt of atleten elke Spelen prestaties neerzetten die aan dit motto voldoen. De eerste "moderne" Olympische Spelen vonden al plaats in 1896, maar...
De schaatssport onder de loep
Kan de startprocedure worden verbeterd door deze te automatiseren? – Jorrit Visser
Lionel Messi gebruikt doping
Net als Cristiano Ronaldo. En Ibrahimovic ook. Want waarom zou het volledige wielerpeloton en de hele atletiek wel uit de verboden pot snoepen, maar de mondiale voetbaltop niet? – Ruben te Wierik
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