Bill, Author at Raise Your Game

The Intersection of Poker + Chess

June 1, 2021 by Bill

Bill Chen, two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, co-author of The Mathematics of Poker, an expert-level chess player, and a quantitative researcher at SIG, shares his thoughts on the overlap between poker and chess.

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World Chess Championship 2016 Through the Eyes of a Chess Fan

February 6, 2017 by Bill

The position seen below is from the last tiebreak game of the 2016 World Chess Championship match in New York City. The defending World Champion, Magnus Carlsen, holding White, simply had to find a draw to retain his title against the Challenger Sergey Karjakin. Instead, he sealed the victory with...