This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and shogi -- in just a few hours, a new study reports.

Before it ever played its first game, Giraffe “studied” 175 million chess positions generated this way, building its own understanding of the 1,500-year-old game.

Google's AlphaZero program, after teaching itself chess in a matter of hours, beat the world's greatest computerized chess player. Playing 100 matches against the former world champion chess ...

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A Google computer program just destroyed a human champion in a game that's even harder than chess By Tanya Lewis 2016-01-27T18:15:00Z ...

Some of the possibilities can be illustrated by setting up a computer in such a way that it will play a fair game of chess. Under some circumstances the machine might well defeat the program designer.