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A Jangling Noise of Words

From “What Computers Can’t Do,” which appeared in the August 1965 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. There is…

Knights-Errant

by Jacob Sweet,

Online chess reshapes the game of kings

Fingerfehler

From comments made by Russian chess officials in July, following an incident at the Moscow Open in which a chess-playing robot broke the finger of its seven-year-old competitor. Translated from…