{"id":337950,"date":"2025-12-09T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337950\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:12:08","slug":"alan-trefler-pegasystems-ceo-on-how-chess-informs-business-decisions-and-ai-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/337950\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Trefler, Pegasystems CEO, on how chess informs business decisions and AI understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"b9ffd69edcbd1f32-authorLink\" data-testid=\"AuthorURL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/by\/lauren-sams-h1bzh6\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Sams<\/a>Fin editor, deputy editor AFR Magazine and fashion editor<\/p>\n<p>Dec 10, 2025 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>Gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-title\" data-testid=\"Modal-title\">Subscribe to gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-giftDescription d6475070fa5e1d14-noMaxWidth\" data-testid=\"Modal-description\">Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.<\/p>\n<p><a data-testid=\"Modal-subscribe-button\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.afr.com\/?promote_channel=HI_AGFT_GNL_GIFTCTA&amp;utm_source=ArticleGifting&amp;utm_medium=HouseInventory&amp;utm_campaign=General&amp;utm_content=GiftCTA\" class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeSubtext\">Already a subscriber? Login<\/p>\n<p>Alan Trefler is the chief executive officer Pegasystems. He is 69 and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Why did you start playing chess?<br \/>I started playing because I watched my father play with his friends when I was quite young. Players have exactly the same information and yet they all see different things and can make very different plans. It offered such richness of possibility in a really transparent environment.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren SamsFin editor, deputy editor AFR Magazine and fashion editor Dec 10, 2025 \u2013 5.00am Gift this article&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-337950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}