How Chess Plays Out At MIT: Shaping The Future Of The Game
How Chess Plays Out At MIT: Shaping The Future Of The Game
How Chess Plays Out At MIT: Shaping The Future Of The Game
By Alison Gold
January 22, 2021
Summary
Chess has a long history at MIT that began decades before 62 million households tuned in to Netflix's miniseries "The Queen's Gambit." Though the show ranked as Netflix's No. 1 in 63 countries within its first month, and sparked a global surge in the sale of chess sets and books, several members of MIT's chess club say, with a laugh, that they haven't seen it yet.
During the same time period, artificial intelligence experts at MIT were shaping the future of chess.
As a student at MIT and an avid chess player, Greenblatt published his work in a 1967 paper entitled "The Greenblatt Chess Program."
"There's a sort of latent energy at MIT of a lot of people that are vaguely interested in chess," says William Cuozzo, a junior majoring in physics and computer science, and a member of MIT's chess team executive board.
Aileen Ma, a junior in computer science and a member of MIT's chess team executive board, says she hopes that the show will inspire people to take up chess as a new hobby.
Before the pandemic brought a halt to on-campus activities, MIT's chess club hosted one U.S. Chess Federation tournament every academic year.
Zhong learned to play chess at age 6, and is currently a member of MIT's chess team.
Reference
Gold, A. (2021, January 22). How chess plays out at mit: Shaping the future of the game. Retrieved March 19, 2021, from https://scitechdaily.com/how-chess-plays-out-at-mit-shaping-the-future-of-the-game/