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The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."

—Eliezer Yudkowsky

Why Chess Became AI’s Favorite Testing Ground

Chess has long served as a benchmark for artificial intelligence research, symbolizing strategy, calculation, and machine decision-making.

From Shannon’s “chess machines” to Deep Blue and AlphaZero, chess has been the sandbox where researchers turned abstract ideas about machine intelligence into systems that could challenge the best human minds.