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)

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CollatzProblem.html

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

Chinook http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/play/

HJ Bremmermann on the solution to chess

https://web.archive.org/web/20010527190358/http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Authors/Computing/Bremermann-HJ/QNaI.html

Jonathan Schaeffer on the solution to chess

https://web.archive.org/web/20090325220009/http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/5379

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/