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DeepMind’s latest artificial intelligence, DeepNash, has learned how to beat almost all human players at Stratego, a war game that involves two players attempting to capture the enemy’s flag. It’s yet ...

Unlike chess and Go, where players can grasp the identity of each piece, a board game that fights while hiding the identity of each other's pieces is ' Stratego 'is. In addition, Stratego is known as ...

Google’s artificial intelligence bot “DeepNash” has learned to play Stratego – one of the few board games AI had not mastered – and has reached an all-time top-three ranking among human experts.

AI hates uncertainty. Yet to navigate our unpredictable world, it needs to learn to make choices with imperfect information—as we do every single day. DeepMind just took a stab at solving this ...

While artificial intelligence long ago surpassed human capability in chess, and more recently Go — and let us not forget Doom — other more complex board games still present a challenge to computer ...

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Anil Ananthaswamy is the author of Through Two Doors at Once, among other books. His next is on the mathematics of machine learning. Another game long considered extremely difficult for artificial ...

I won the first game of Stratego I played in probably 15 years. I’d like to report that it all came back to me, that some long dormant part of my brain where I kept the skills from my one of my ...

Stratego is a classic board game. It's so common that you can probably find a decent copy at your local thrift store for the same price as one of the two iDevice versions available on the App Store.

Another classic board game is getting pushed into the digital realm today, with the launch of Stratego on iPad and Facebook. The online title from developer Keesing Games lets you play cross-platform ...

Ah, Stratego. A game with rules so simple you'll understand them fully the first time you play, and yet so open to strategy and cleverness that you'll never play the same game twice. With its fast ...