Count to Ten

Stockfish 10 is out!

Unlike most chess engines, Stockfish is open source (GPL license). That means you can read the code, modify it, contribute back, and even use it in your own projects. For further details and downloading visit: https://stockfishchess.org.

I named the fish after Nemo even if he didn’t marry Dory

Stockfish 9 is out!

Unlike most chess engines, Stockfish is open source (GPL license). That means you can read the code, modify it, contribute back, and even use it in your own projects. For further details and downloading visit: https://stockfishchess.org.

Finding Nemo

Stockfish 8 is out!

Unlike most chess engines, Stockfish is open source (GPL license). That means you can read the code, modify it, contribute back, and even use it in your own projects. For further details and downloading see https://stockfishchess.org.

Tron: Legacy

Seoul, March 9 (Reuters) – Google’s AlphaGo computer program on Wednesday won the first of a series of five matches against one of the world’s best players of the complex board game, Go, marking a new milestone in the development of artificial intelligence (AI). South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol, an 18-time international title winner, conceded defeat in a match broadcast live, with one Youtube stream watched by tens of thousands of people worldwide, and domestic cable gave frequent updates. AlphaGo, built by Google subsidiary DeepMind, made history in October, by becoming the first computer program ever to beat a human professional player at the ancient Asian board game. [Read more].

• Google’s AlphaGo AI Program Defeats One Of World’s Best “Go” Players, The Huffington Post, March 9, 2016

AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol
Handout via Getty Images

May 2, 1945

Stockfish

Unlike most chess engines, Stockfish is open source (GPL license). That means you can read the code, modify it, contribute back, and even use it in your own projects. For further details and downloading see https://stockfishchess.org.

Thirty Years’ War

Windows 1: where it all started for Windows. The original Windows 1 was released in November 1985 and was Microsoft’s first true attempt at a graphical user interface in 16-bit. It was notable because it relied heavily on use of a mouse before the mouse was a common computer input device. To help users become familiar with this odd input system, Microsoft included a game, Reversi (visible in the screenshot) that relied on mouse control, not the keyboard. Photograph: The Guardian.

• Windows turns 30: a look at the operating system through the ages, The Guardian, November 20, 2015

九节鞭 (Chain whip)

• Enrico Marro, Le tre ragioni per cui Twitter è in crisi nera, Il Sole 24 ORE, 6 agosto 2015

Artwork: berkozturk

Google+

• Stefania Spatti, Google da record: tocca i 700 dollari ad azione e aumenta il suo valore di 65 miliardi in un solo giorno, Il Sole 24 ORE, 18 luglio 2015

Artwork: TimeShifterX

Firenzina

Firenzina is a free, open-source UCI chess engine by Kranium (Norman Schmidt), Yuri Censor (Dmitri Gusev) and ZirconiumX (Matthew Brades). Firenzina is a derivative of Fire 2.2 xTreme by Kranium (Norman Schmidt).

Retrogaming

Tetris (1986)

Mettete da parte le console di ultima generazione e fate un salto indietro di qualche decennio in quegli anni Ottanta e Novanta dove i primi videogame in versione DOS hanno visto la loro nascita e il loro successo. Questo è il riassunto dell’effetto nostalgia sul quale ha voluto puntare il sito The Internet Archive, già famoso per essere un archivio di materiale virtuale ormai desueto, che da oggi ha arricchito la sua piattaforma di reperti web vintage con circa 2400 game d’epoca, ovviamente giocabili online. Noi ne abbiamo scelto qualcuno per fare un salto in quel mondo di giochi ad 8 bit. [Read more].

• Nicola Perilli, Da Donkey Kong a Tetris: nasce l’archivio che vi fa giocare online, la Repubblica.it, 8 gennaio 2015

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