Chess Learns to Live With Its Robot Overlords

Let us begin by tipping a small, respectful, slightly terrified king to the International Chess Federation , which has managed to connect three things that reliably make people feel inadequate: chess, artificial intelligence and education. At FIDE’s “ Chess & AI in Education ” Congress in Menorca, Spain, in April, the message was not that robots are coming for the classroom with a rook lift and a lesson plan. It was that AI is turning chess into a test lab for how people learn, think, teach, com