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The coming of the AI coach is not on anyone's radar now except for the obscure post at MCF.news. I just want to add there is an added benefit to the human coaches despite the perceived threat of AI replacing the human coach. The human coach is still essential and the AI coach just acts as assistant. Particularly useful when doing remote coaching...

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Recently a player in the ongoing Malaysian Chess Festival, who shall go unnamed, was caught with a phone on his/her person. That person's game was immediately forfeited because this is a clear vioaltion of the rules of the tournament. No chess program can be found on the phone so the case is not a proven cheating case. However the player was suspended from...

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That's the price of one type of metal detectors at Lazada. Cheap right? The shorter the wand the less sensitive the metal detector is. That is why the short one sold at Lazada is only RM 35. I mention in a past post that metal detectors can be used as one of the deterrent to chess cheating but as usual technology moves at a...

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