Newmark's Door

There's competition for that title--there's Byrne vs. Fischer for example--but it is pretty remarkable.

 Garry Kasparov.

"For decades, casinos scoffed as mathematicians and physicists devised elaborate systems to take down the house. Then an unassuming Croatian’s winning strategy forever changed the game."

Certainly easy enough to remember.

I'm not a big chess fan, but, I agree, this is an incredible game to see.

Everything is probabilities: "To poker players, losing is part of a winning strategy."

Until somebody beats it, 1780 points is impressive.

Something I hadn't seen before: playing tic-tac-toe by bouncing ping pong balls onto peanut-buttered bread.

Project to have actual conversations with game NPCs (non-player characters) via ChapGPT.

There are a huge number of worse obsessions.