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Is AI Taking Over Chess & Poker? (w/ Hikaru Nakamura)

Doug Polk Podcast

English - December 18, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 74 MB - ★★★★★ - 69 ratings
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Chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura joins Doug Polk to discuss the threat (if any) that artificial intelligence poses to both chess and poker.

0:00 Intro
1:10 Hikaru joins
6:44 AI in Chess, World Chess Championship
19:52 Difficulty of making money from Chess
24:23 Hikaru's interest in Poker
31:16 Poker/Chess Streams, Solvers in Poker
42:38 Omaha vs Hold'em, Hikaru gets a solver lesson
52:31 Possible changes to the World Chess Championship?
1:01:17 Risk taking in Chess
1:06:28 Can Alireza challenge Magnus?
1:15:40 Investing in Crypto
1:27:00 Hockey, Vancouver, Will Hikaru play poker in the future?
1:38:05 Betting in Chess, Investing = Gambling?
1:49:20 Outro

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