PickVidsBest Chess, board games & puzzles Videos
The 27 Chess, board games & puzzles videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 4 introductory, 2 intermediate, 21 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include suckerpinch, John Bartholomew, agadmator's Chess Channel.
AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary
Feature-length documentary following DeepMind's AlphaGo program as it prepares for and plays the 2016 match against Go champion Lee Sedol.
Computer program that learns to play classic NES games
Tom7 explains and demos software that learns to play NES games by finding score patterns in memory and then searching for inputs that raise it.
The Expert Myth
Veritasium examines which experts have real expertise, drawing on chess research and work by Klein and Kahneman.
30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World
Tom Scott-style absurdist tour by Tom7 of SIGBOVIK chess projects: a tournament of 30 weird chess algorithms used to rate a color- and piece-blind chess program.
Tom Scott vs Irving Finkel: The Royal Game of Ur | PLAYTHROUGH | International Tabletop Day 2017
Tom Scott plays the Royal Game of Ur against British Museum curator Irving Finkel, who deciphered its rules from a cuneiform tablet.
Climbing the Rating Ladder: Up to 1000
Chess player John Bartholomew plays opponents rated below 1000 on Chess.com and comments on optimal strategy and typical mistakes at that level.
Chess Fundamentals #1: Undefended Pieces
First video in John Bartholomew's Chess Fundamentals series, focused on spotting undefended pieces.
Infinite Mario AI - Long Level
A bot built by Robin Baumgarten plays Infinite Mario using A* path-finding, shown as a red planned path that updates as new obstacles appear.
Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis lectures on Lichess (2017)
Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis talks at Big Techday 10 in Munich about how Lichess works and how he built it.
I Solved Klotski
2swap explains how he solved the Klotski sliding-block puzzle by mapping its full state space as a graph and visualizing it.
I Built a COMPUTER in Magic: The Gathering
Kyle Hill of Because Science explains and demonstrates, using real cards, how Magic: The Gathering can be used to build a Turing machine, a computer inside the card game.
Alpha Zero's "Immortal Zugzwang Game" against Stockfish
agadmator walks through a game in which DeepMind's AlphaZero beat Stockfish, ending in a famous zugzwang that leaves the engine helpless.
A simple trick to design your own solutions for Rubik's cubes
Mathologer shows a simple idea, the commutator, that lets anyone who can solve the first layer design their own full Rubik's cube solution.
Google's DeepMind AI vs StarCraft 2 World Champion - Game 1
ArtosisTV's commentary on Game 1 of DeepMind's AlphaStar (Protoss) against top Zerg player Serral at Blizzcon 2019.
Longplay: The Incredible Machine (1993) [MS-DOS]
A two-hour complete longplay of the 1993 MS-DOS puzzle game The Incredible Machine, in which players assemble Rube Goldberg contraptions to complete simple tasks.
How AlphaZero Completely CRUSHED Stockfish
GothamChess walks through AlphaZero's famous games against Stockfish, highlighting its unusual pawn sacrifices and positional style.
The Unbeatable Game from the 60s: Dr NIM
Matt Parker of Stand-up Maths explains single-pile Nim and the trick that wins it, using Dr NIM, a 1960s mechanical plastic computer that plays perfectly.
Feynman :: Rules of Chess
A three-minute clip of Richard Feynman using the rules of chess as an analogy for how science works, discovering rules by observation and sometimes meeting surprises like castling.
Derren Brown vs 9 Chess Players
Mentalist Derren Brown plays nine skilled English chess players, including four grandmasters, simultaneously on his TV show.
LSV Breaks MTGO
Pro Magic player Luis Scott-Vargas triggers a mandatory-action infinite loop on Magic Online, and the game stalls in a non-terminating state.
Automaton 2000 Micro - Marine Split Battle vs IMMvp
A short demo of Automaton 2000 Micro, a StarCraft bot built in Blizzard's World Editor that splits marines perfectly against banelings.
Youtube Takes Down CHESS PODCAST for Being HARMFUL or DANGEROUS
Chess YouTuber agadmator reports that YouTube took down his podcast with Hikaru Nakamura as harmful or dangerous content.
WarGames (11/11) Movie CLIP - The Only Winning Move (1983) HD
Clip from the 1983 film WarGames in which the computer Joshua concludes that global thermonuclear war has no winner and proposes a game of chess instead.
Magnus Carlsen's Mind-Blowing Memory! World Chess Champion tested
Grandmaster David Howell tests Magnus Carlsen by showing him chess positions and asking which famous games they come from.