Chess
Sabrina tells us about chess, how maths plays its part in games, and whether there's any way to be able to win at chess every time you play.
Sci Club Pod is created by Sabrina Wilson, John Lavery and Tyler Sudholz. Audio editing by Tyler Sudholz.
This podcast was recorded on Woiwurrung Country.
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SABRINA'S REFERENCES:
Queens Gambit opening: https://www.chess.com/openings/Queens-Gambit
Mandlebrot Set: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MandelbrotSet.html
Collatz Conjecture (aka 3n+1 problem)
Creed Bratton chess master (The Office) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2UEFxMQz-E
Game Theory https://www.britannica.com/science/game-theory
Hannah Fry on Rock Paper Scissors strategy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rudzYPHuewc&t=272s
Hannah Fry on the game theory of relationships https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkOIw7vAZCQ
New Scientist Obituary for Checkers https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12296-checkers-solved-after-years-of-number-crunching/?ignored=irrelevant
HJ Bremmermann on the solution to chess
Jonathan Schaeffer on the solution to chess
Martin Gardner, “The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes and Problems” (2001)
Tic Tac Toe on the sphere and other topology games: http://www.geometrygames.org/