Before each game, a lottery draw with a bowl of wooden balls determines how the chess board will be scrambled, and the players convene to discuss strategies for the new arrangement of pieces.

The chess world erupted over a cheeky joke from Chess.com asking players for “new name ideas” for one of the game’s pieces.

While supercomputers—most famously IBM’s Deep Blue —have long surpassed the world’s best human chess players, generative AI still lags behind due to their underlying programming parameters.

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