If you’ve ever played chess or even checkers, you’ve probably thought about making a board that lets a computer play you without having to enter your moves and look at the board on a screen ...

This isn’t just a themed chess set; it’s a fully robotic, AI-powered board where the pieces move on their own, finally delivering on a dream many fans have held for over two decades.

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For chess, Alpha Zero is fed board positions and moves generated in practice games, and it tunes its neurons’ firing to favor winning moves, an approach known as reinforcement learning.