Jean-Michel Péchiné

Jean-Michel Péchiné has been the editorial adviser of Europe Echecs since 2002. As a member of International Chess Collectors, he discovered the oldest Arabian figurative chess pieces exhumed in Europe in Loisy (Burgundy). In 1997, he published a book edited by famous French editor Gallimard narrating 15 centuries of chess history: Roi des Jeux, Jeu des Rois!

He is a professional photographer, and has organized exhibitions as in the Olympic Museum of Lausanne or in Besançon in 1999 with a private visit of Kasparov and Karpov, where Europe Echecs was created in 1959. He has given nearly 250 lectures to promote the art and culture of chess.

He is one of the organizers of famous Rencontres du Cap d’Agde/Trophy Karpov. His motto has always been Gens Una Sumus!

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Chess and Artificial Intelligence (2)

2/17/2021 – "It's just a machine. It has no consciousness or feelings as we understand them. We have specific connections in our brain that make us react according to the circumstances, the situations we are experiencing. We interpret them as pleasure, pain and all other kinds of emotions. We would have to invent a new word to express what computers 'feel'." Here's the second part of the Europe Échecs discussion with Frederic Friedel on the subject of Artificial Intelligence.

Chess and Artificial Intelligence (1)

2/15/2021 – In 1987 Frederic Friedel co-founded ChessBase – a company that leads the world in chess software. It created the first professional chess database in history and the iconic Fritz chess playing program. The "guru" of ChessBase believes that Artificial Intelligence can be the key to mankind's future. He is as optimistic and enthusiastic, as ever, expressing hopes, but also his fears and doubts. How will we coexist with computers of a new type when they have become as intelligent as we are, and even more so?
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