Contradictheory: Who to trust – computers or human intuition?


Magnus Carlsen plays Fabiano Caruana at the 2018 World Chess Championship. Photo: Reuters

If chess is a hobby of yours, you will know that the World Chess Championship is now taking place in London. World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen is facing World No. 2 Fabiano Caruana – one on one, man on man – in a battle of wits and wills over chequerboard.

These modern-day gladiators pit against each other to calculate the best moves over the board all on their own – except that’s not quite true.

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