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Online discussions about black and white chess pieces are confusing artificial intelligence algorithms trained to detect racism and other hate speech, according to new research.

Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University began investigating the AI glitch after a popular chess channel on YouTube was blocked for harmful and dangerous content last June.

Croatian chess player Antonio Radic, who goes by the online alias Agadmator, hosts the worlds most popular YouTube chess channel, with more than 1 million subscribers.

On 28 June, 2020, Radic was blocked from YouTube while presenting a chess show with Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, though no specific reason was given by the Google-owned video platform.

Radics channel was reinstated after 24 hours, leading the chess champion to speculate that he had been temporarily banned for a referral to black against white, even though he was talking about chess at the time.

YouTubes moderation system relies on both humans and AI algorithms, meaning any AI system could misinterpret the comments if not trained correctly to understand context.

If they rely on artificial intelligence to detect racist language, this kind of accident can happen, said Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh, a project scientist at CMUs Language Technologies Institute.

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KhudaBukhsh tested this theory by using a state-of-the-art speech classifier to screen more than 680,000 comments gathered from five popular chess-focussed YouTube channels.

After manually reviewing a selection of 1,000 comments that had been classed by the AI as hate speech, they found that 82 per cent of them had been misclassified due to the use of words like black, white, attack and threat all of which commonly used in chess parlance.

The paper was presented this month at the Association for the Advancement of AI annual conference.

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Liverpool lost to Everton in the Merseyside derby this weekend, but has this one picked out the one positive to come from the round of fixtures?

The loss hurts an incredible amount. In a bad season, this is the nadir. The Toffies took the lead after just three minutes, while Jordan Henderson limped off before the end of the first half.

Liverpool are now down in sixth place, three points away from Chelsea who are in fourth. This team, who looked so strong and so unbeatable for so long look fragile and incredible beatable.

Jurgen Klopps side have just lost four games in a row at Anfield. This was unthinkable four weeks ago, never mind last season.

While we digest the painful defeat and what that might mean about this campaign and the rest of 2020/2021, there is one little silver lining from this weekend.

Takumi Minamino was loaned out to Southampton for the rest of the Premier League season and hes hit the ground running underRalph Hasenhttl, who plays football with the same intensity and a similar style to Klopp.

The Saints took on Chelsea and sent the London side back to Cobham with a 1-1 draw, with Minamino grabbingHasenhttl sides goal. Hes now scored two for his new side, after netting once in half a campaign previously.

That strike is vital in the context of the top four places, as it meant Chelsea would only take one point from the game which is important given that Liverpool dropped three on Saturday.

Without Minaminos goal, the Blues would now be five points above Liverpool in fourth. Three points look very far away, never mind five. This side dont look capable of stringing together the run of results required to close the gap on Chelsea, who look invigorated under Thomas Tuchel.

The difference between three and five seems massive far bigger than just one win, or two draws. Klopp will go back to the drawing board to find another centre-back combination after Henderson limped off, and hope that our top-four rivals keep dropping points.

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The All India Chess Federation (AICF) in its Annual General meeting finally announced that Maharashtra Chess Association will be back as governing body along with Rajasthan Chess Association after both sorted out conflicts with their respective rival bodies.

Earlier, a protracted legal dispute over the Pune-based Maharashtra Chess Association (MCA)s disaffiliation by the All India Chess Federation (AICF) in 2016 finally came to a conclusion after a five-member panel in a Special General Body Meeting (SGM), decided to restore the affiliation of MCA along with Rajasthan Chess Association.

The dispute had originally stemmed from a factional tussle within the MCA, which was registered as a society in 1975 by way of amalgamation of the then five regional chess bodies in the state. The association was then granted affiliation by the AICF in 1978.

Much later, in 2012, the AICF had asked all its affiliates to amend their bye-laws and be in line with one nation, one federation norm. However, the tussle within MCA factions resulted in the delay in the completion of the entire process. At that time, the association had approved the amendments but they were pending approval from the office of the charity commissioner.

In December 2016, the AICF disaffiliated the MCA for not amending their bye-laws in time and granted affiliation to a parallel body in the state, thus setting off the legal dispute. Almost four years later, under the guidance of former president Ashok Jain, the MCA has been able to restore not only their affiliation but also their pride.

Meanwhile, AICF has decided to bid for the next edition of Olympiad along with announcing the start of a high-profile Indian Chess League later this year. We want India to become the chess destination of the world. We have drawn out a detailed plan to achieve the goal, said newly-elected AICF President Sanjay Kapoor.

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