Mysterious Roman-era board game that eluded scientists for a century finally solved by AI

The cutting-edge gamebot, named Ludii, “played the game against itself and identified a few variants that are enjoyable for humans to play.” ...

Man builds electrified chessboard that shocks players for bad moves

Heisler’s Skinner box-esque chess set was inspired by similarly masochistic DIY projects like an electrified keyboard, and gets its voltage from a reconfigured TENS unit. Short for Transcutaneous ...

'I taught my dog to vibe code games': Yup, someone actually managed to get Claude AI to code a game based on the keyboard inputs of a pooch

If this is what a Cavapoo can do, goodness knows what a Border Collie would code.
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Stop scrolling, start thinking: Why this SEA Games star wants your kids to play chess

SHAH ALAM – National SEA Games chess player Tan Wei Hao has called for chess to be introduced as a compulsory part of the school curriculum, arguing that the game can help young Malaysians develop ...
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Tribal dept to team up with FIDE’s education panel to make chess a learning tool in schools

CHENNAI: The state Tribal Welfare Department is planning to introduce chess in its schools, run in educationally disadvantaged tribal regions, as a structured educational initiative to nurture life ...
GamesIndustry

Roblox debuts tool for players to AI-generate interactive in-game objects, promises "full scene generation" is coming

Roblox has announced a beta tool which enables users to create interactive 3D models from text prompts, an upgrade to its existing 3D asset generation tool revealed last year. The feature was ...
Psychology Today

The Chess Game of Life: Why Every Move Matters

I want to ask you a question: Do you think the choices you make today will have any impact on your future? If we stop to think about it, most of us would say, “Yes, of course.” But we don’t actually ...