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AlphaZero: the new king of chess

AlphaZero: the new king of chess

by Sjors Keet | Oct 24, 2019 | Operations Research, Sports, Statistics

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...
Recreational Mathematics & Chess: The Knight’s Tour

Recreational Mathematics & Chess: The Knight’s Tour

by Tim van Schaick | Dec 1, 2015 | Mathematics

Let’s talk about chess. After all, chess is closely related to mathematics and econometricians love mathematics. We’ll start with how mathematics is related to chess or how chess is related to mathematics in the first place. Although mathematics and chess are...

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