Understanding Distributions of Chess Performances
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Showing posts with label Free Instructive Chess books/Articles. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Artificial Intelligence for Chess Reduction by Annelie Heuser
Artificial Intelligence for Chess Reduction
66 pages professional scince thesis by Annelie Heuser
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Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Big Collection of Chessity.com puzzles (2000+ Puzzles so far WITH SOLUTIONS )
If it's white turn to move, then the puzzle will say 1-0, and if it's black's turn to move, it will be 0-1.There are all kinds of puzzles: tactics, all sorts of defensive puzzles, checkmates, quiet moves, and the puzzles range from very easy to very challenging. I think they provide a good range of difficulty and most importantly they seem to be very practical in nature.
Specials Thanks for the team in immortalchess.net for collecting theses precious gems.
Sunday, 24 November 2013
Computational Aesthetics and Chess as an Art Form
Computational Aesthetics and Chess as an Art Form
Azlan Iqbal and Mashkuri Yaacob
Universiti Tenaga Nasional
Selangor, Malaysia
Azlan Iqbal and Mashkuri Yaacob
Universiti Tenaga Nasional
Selangor, Malaysia
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The Art of Chess Artists
The Art of Chess Artists - This is a great visual treat ....
The Art of Chess
, an exhibition featuring 15 of some of the most ac
claimed international
contemporary artists
The Art of Chess
, an exhibition featuring 15 of some of the most ac
claimed international
contemporary artists
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Detecting Fortresses in Chess, Matej Guid, Ivan Bratko
Detecting Fortresses in Chess
Matej Guid, Ivan Bratko
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
Abstract.
We introduce a computational method for semi-automatical detecting fortresses in the game of chess.
It is based on computer heuristic search and can be easily used with any state-of-the-art chess program. We
also demonstrate a method for avoiding fortresses and show how to find a break-through plan when one exists.
Although the paper is not concerned with the question whether it is practical or not to implement the method
within
the state-of-the-art chess programs, the method can be useful, for example, in correspondence chess or
in composing chess studies, where a human-computer interaction is of great importance, and the time available
is significantly longer than in ordinary chess competitions
Matej Guid, Ivan Bratko
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
Abstract.
We introduce a computational method for semi-automatical detecting fortresses in the game of chess.
It is based on computer heuristic search and can be easily used with any state-of-the-art chess program. We
also demonstrate a method for avoiding fortresses and show how to find a break-through plan when one exists.
Although the paper is not concerned with the question whether it is practical or not to implement the method
within
the state-of-the-art chess programs, the method can be useful, for example, in correspondence chess or
in composing chess studies, where a human-computer interaction is of great importance, and the time available
is significantly longer than in ordinary chess competitions
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The History Heuristic and Alpha-Beta Search Enhancements in Practice -by - Jonathan Schaeffer
The History Heuristic and
Alpha-Beta Search Enhancements in Practice -by -
Jonathan Schaeffer
Alpha-Beta Search Enhancements in Practice -by -
Jonathan Schaeffer
onathan Herbert Schaeffer (born 1957) is a Canadian researcher and
professor at the University of Alberta and the Canada Research Chair in
Artificial Intelligence.
He led the team that wrote Chinook, the world's strongest American checkers player, after some relatively good results in writing computer chess programs. He is involved in the University of Alberta GAMES group developing computer poker systems. Schaeffer is also a member of the research group that created Polaris, a program designed to play the Texas Hold'em variant of poker.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1979 from the University of Toronto. He received a Master of Mathematics degree in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of Waterloo. Schaeffer reached national master strength in chess while in his early 20s, but has played little competitive chess since that time....
He led the team that wrote Chinook, the world's strongest American checkers player, after some relatively good results in writing computer chess programs. He is involved in the University of Alberta GAMES group developing computer poker systems. Schaeffer is also a member of the research group that created Polaris, a program designed to play the Texas Hold'em variant of poker.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1979 from the University of Toronto. He received a Master of Mathematics degree in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of Waterloo. Schaeffer reached national master strength in chess while in his early 20s, but has played little competitive chess since that time....
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A brighter future for Soviet Computer Chess ? by Tony Marsland
A brighter future for Soviet Computer Chess ? ..An excellent paper from 1981 by Tony Marsland about a trip inside Russia
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Multilingual Chess Terminology - a Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective by dr Marii Bloch-Trojnar
Multilingual Chess Terminology - a Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective by dr Marii Bloch-Trojnar
Multilingual Chess Terminology - a Synchronic and Diachronic
Perspective- This is a college thesis by a very famous chess author -
Krzysztof Panczyk- his books include... The Classical King's Indian
Uncovered ... The Offbeat King's Indian: Lesser Known Tries to Counter
This Most Popular of Defences ... Ruy Lopez Exchange ... and others ...
This is a very unusual publication and covers chess in aspects i have
never seen before... 170 pages
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The Satirist and the Engineer (an article about "The Magician from Riga").
The Satirist and the Engineer
DOMINIC LAWSON
Stand Point Magazine
Stand Point Magazine
http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/2981/full
Collection of Best Annotated Games
Here is a link to some of the best games of all time
They are annotated and interactive on the Gameknot site
These games are like gems
Blindfold Chess essential training by Dimosthenis Michailidis
Blindfold Chess essential training by Dimosthenis Michailidis
The scope of this
book is to make chess players capable of thinking blindfold. There are
131 problems in which the reader has to follow the recorded moves in
order to find the mating move. All problems are based on actual games of
masters.
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Two ReadersEndgame Blindfold Training by Dimosthenis Michailidis
Two Readers Endgame Blindfold Training by Dimosthenis Michailidis
This book is a collection of 120 endgame
chess positions. At every position the player who plays first has a
winning advantage and it is easy to find the solution. I suggest this
book to those who wants to extend their blindfold thinking skills.
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Monday, 18 November 2013
The White Chess Collection
The White Chess Collection- John Griswold White (1845–1928) was a prominent Cleveland attorney, a chess connoisseur, and a bibliophile.[1] "Over a period of some fifty years he conducted a determined quest, throughout the world, for desirable additions to his library."[1] Chess historian H.J.R. Murray, who called White's chess library the largest in the world,[2] made extensive use of the collection in writing his classic treatise A History of Chess.[3] White donated his collection to the Cleveland Public Library to form the John G. White Collection on Folklore, Orientalia, and Chess.[1]
The library has since split the collection into three. The John G. White Chess and Checkers Collection is described as the "[l]argest chess library in the world (32,568 volumes of books and serials, including 6,359 volumes of bound periodicals.)" The John G. White Folklore Collection contains 47,040 volumes, "one of the largest in the nation. It is broadly defined in scope and international in coverage without period restrictions. Included are primitive, peasant, native, and folk cultures within geographic restrictions." The John G. White Collection of Orientalia includes "materials on Asia, the Near and Middle East, Africa, Australia and Oceania," emphasizing "the humanistic and social science aspects of traditional cultures prior to the impact of European influence."[4]... Here is a direct link to view and D/L many of the chess photographs in this rare collection ...
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Sunday, 17 November 2013
Masters of our time : Impatience and Self-Control in High Level Games on gender differences
PATRIK GRÄNSMARK
Abstract
This paper presents empirical findings on gender differences in time preference and inconsistency based on international, high-level chess panel data with a large number of observations, including a control for ability. Due to the time constraint in chess, it is possible to study performance and choices related to time preferences.
The results suggest that men play shorter games on average and pay a higher price to end the game sooner. They also perform worse in shorter game compared to women but better in longer games. Furthermore,
women perform worse in time pressure (the 40th move time control).
The results are consistent with the interpretation that men are more impatient (with a lower discount factor)
but also more inconsistent in the sense that they tend to be too impatient.
Women, on the other hand, are more inconsistent as they tend to over-consume reflection tim e in the beginning, leading to time pressure later....
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