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AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-27/ai-changed-chess-grandmasters-now-win-with-unpredictable-moves
25•GMoromisato•4d ago

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curiousObject•4d ago
https://archive.is/o69yu
NitpickLawyer•1h ago
Bit of a fluff piece with a weird title. Yes, GMs use "suboptimal moves" in their games, but the main reason is to take their opponents out of prep, and more importantly those lines are also heavily analysed by engines. They are specifically looking for imprecise moves that are only imprecise if the opponent finds the correct line, which could be 10-15 moves deep (so it might not be feasible to do over the board).

And this isn't something new. Magnus has been doing this for a few years now, after getting bored of facing the same over prepped opponents. He has mastered this technique, and showed that he's still the GOAT at mid to late game positions once the opponent is out of prep. But again, he's not doing this "randomly", he's studying when and where he can do it to temporarily get a disadvantage that will sort itself out later in the game. And engines are heavily used still.

DeathArrow•48m ago
Maybe that's why I don't like to play chess, because you have to have a very good memory to at least be average.
csallen•44m ago
You can for sure be above average without a very good memory if you're good at spotting tactics. But average isn't a super high bar.
bit1993•40m ago
Memory helps but another way is just to play the best moves every turn based on the position.
trusche•24m ago
Totally. Especially handy in openings.

/s

sd9•9m ago
Cool, how?
vova_hn2•28m ago
Have you tried Chess960?
automatic6131•25m ago
Define "average" and "very good" - it's quite easy to become good enough to beat all your friends and family (as long as you haven't made friends at the chess club or chess competitions). But if you want to do your best at the local chess competition held in a school hall at the weekend against all kinds of people, from little kids to pensioners, then yeah, you're going to need to spend lots of time studying openings, learning end game theory, and solving chess puzzles.
asibahi•11m ago
I am very decidedly above average (1800ish on lichess) and my memory is blank.
dgb23•3m ago
If you had to pick 1-2 things, what would you consider key skills that put you ahead of players a tier below you?
kubb•6m ago
The „AI” messaging barrage is relentless. Stockfish is AI, LLMs are AI, neural nets are AI.

It’s a self reinforcing system. We need a major disruption to move on from it.

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