Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently published a study seeking to understand why a YouTube chess channel with over one million subscribers had a live interview pulled for "harmful and ...

Four years in the making, a unique documentary on young blind chess players from India made by British filmmaker Ian McDonald and an Indian team to screen at the World Chess Championship in Chennai. A ...

British filmmaker Ian McDonald announced the completion of his film Algorithms, which will feature a documentary on Blind chess for the first time in India. Talking more about the movie, Ian tells us, ...

For the blind players in “Algorithms,” chess is not just a mental game but a tactile one. Sociologist Ian McDonald’s first feature-length documentary profiles three Indian teen boys competing in blind ...

Britain-based sociologist and filmmaker Ian McDonald was enraptured by the world of visually challenged but skilled and calculative chess players in India and he captured their lesser known lives in ...

Chess is an antique, about 1,500 years old, according to most historians. As a result, its evolution seems essentially complete, a hoary game now largely trudging along. That’s not to say that there ...

Chess is the only game where the blind can play on a par with the sighted,” says Charudatta Jadhav in the opening sequence of Algorithms, a documentary on blind chess in India. Made by British ...

ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess engine from the age of Disco Fever and the introduction of the Force did better ...