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All About Chess and Computers

Author : D. Levy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642855385
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book All About Chess and Computers written by D. Levy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some time now, I have felt that the time is right to write a book about Computer Chess. Ever since the first attempts at chess pro gramming were made, some twenty five years ago, interest in the subject ha"s grown from year to year. During the late 1950s the subject was first brought to the attention of the public by an article in Scient(fic American, and less than a decade later a chess program was competing in a tournament with humans. More recently, there have been tournaments in which the only participants were computer programs. and when the first World Computer Championship was held in Stockholm in 1974 the event was an outstanding success. Laymen often doubt the value of investing in a subject so esoteric as computer chess, but there is definitely considerable benefit to be gained from a study of the automisation of chess and other intellectual games. If it proves possible to play such games well by computer, then the techniques employed to analyse and assess future positions in these games will also be useful in other problems in long-range planning. I have tried to make this book both interesting and instructive. Those who understand anything at all about chess but who have no knowledge of computers, will be able to follow my description of how computers play chess. Those with a knowledge of both areas will still find much to interest them.

Chess and Computers

Author : David N. L. Levy
Publisher : Computer Science Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chess and Computers written by David N. L. Levy and published by Computer Science Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1976 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Computers Play Chess

Author : David N. L. Levy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784871878012
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book How Computers Play Chess written by David N. L. Levy and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It now appears possible - even likely - that within a few decades and within certain specialized domains, the computer will be more intelligent than we ourselves. What was unimaginable a few years ago is happening today with alarming rapidity. A small piece of silicon, no larger than a thumbnail, can exhibit more "intelligence" than the best human brains. This book attempts to satisfy two different goals. It presents a comprehensive history of computer chess along with many rare examples of the play of early programs. These examples contain both amazing strokes of brilliance and inexplicable catastrophes; they will give the reader a dear perspective of the pioneer days of computer chess. In contrast, contemporary programs are capable of defeating International Grandmasters; the text contains several recent examples including a remarkable victory over former World Champion Anatoly Karpov. The remainder of the book is devoted to an explanation of how the various parts of a chess program are designed and how they function. Readers who have no knowledge of computers will gain insight into how they "think." Readers who own a personal computer and who want to write their own chess programs will find sufficient information in this book to enable them to make a good start.

Seven Games: A Human History

Author : Oliver Roeder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324003782
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Seven Games: A Human History written by Oliver Roeder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.

How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess

Author : Christian Kongsted
Publisher : Gambit Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781904600022
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess written by Christian Kongsted and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computers have permeated almost every facet of modern chess, yet few players know how to gain the maximum benefit from working with them. Computers function as playing partners, opening study tools, endgame 'oracles', tactics trainers, sources of information on opponents and searchable game databases. Kongsted provides practical advice on how to use computers in all these ways and more. He also takes a look at the history of the chess computer, and how its 'thinking' methods have developed since the early days. The book features an investigation of human vs. machine contests, including the recent Kasparov vs. Deep Junior and Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz matches, in which honours ended even.

Computers, Chess and Long-Range Planning

Author : Michail M. Botvinnik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468462458
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Computers, Chess and Long-Range Planning written by Michail M. Botvinnik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mihail Moiseevich Botvinnik is an electrical engineer by profession; during World War II he headed a high-tension laboratory in the Urals and was decorated by the USSR for his accomplishments. At present, he is the head of the alternating-current machine laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Power Engineering. He is also a world-renowned chess player. He was born in 1911, and by 1935 had become a Grandmaster of Soviet chess. In 1948 he won the world chess championship and held the title until 1963 (except for a two-year break). His chess style has been characterized as deep, objective, serious, and courageous. In this book, the quality of his thinking is revealed in his study of the basic thought processes of master chess players, and his reduction of these processes to mathematical form. This formalization of thought processes is a contribution to science at three levels: at the immediate level, it provides a basis for a computer program that seems likely to succeed in playing chess; at the middle level, game-playing programs help us to study and rationalize the processes of planning and decision-making; and, at the highest level, the study of the mind in action, as in the game of chess, leads to an understanding of human thought and of the human psyche.

Openings for Amateurs

Author : Pete Tamburro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936277506
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book Openings for Amateurs written by Pete Tamburro and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning how to start a game of chess is one of the most daunting tasks facing intermediate adult and young chess players. Award-winning chess teacher and championship scholastic coach Pete Tamburro offers practical guidance for avoiding common pitfalls at the chessboard, as well as effective strategies for meeting troublesome openings and a choice of openings reflecting his focus on ideas over memorization.

How to Beat Your Chess Computer

Author : Raymond Keene
Publisher : Owl Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805023169
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book How to Beat Your Chess Computer written by Raymond Keene and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All about Chess and Computers

Author : David Neil Laurence Levy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780387119328
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book All about Chess and Computers written by David Neil Laurence Levy and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Computer Chess Compendium

Author : D. LEVY
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 147571968X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Computer Chess Compendium written by D. LEVY and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years I have been interested in computer chess and have collected almost every learned paper and article on the subject that I could find. My files are now quite large, and a considerable amount of time, effort and expense has been required to build up this collection. I have often thought how difficult it must be for many computer chess enthusiasts to acquire copies of articles that they see referenced in some other work. Unless one has access to a good reference library, the task is almost impossible. I therefore decided to try to make available, in one volume, as many as possible of the most interesting and important articles and papers ever written on the subject. Such a selection is naturally somewhat subjective, and I hope that I will not offend authors whose works have been excluded. In particular I have decided to exclude any material which has appeared in the Journal of the International Computer Chess Association (ICCA), or in its precursor, the ICCA Newsletter. The reason is simply that the ICCA itself is in the process of compiling a compendium containing the most important material published in those sources. For further information on ICCA membership and publications the reader is invited to contact: Professor H. 1. van den Herik, or Dr Jonathan Schaeffer University of Limburg, Computing Science Dcpaitment, Department of Computer Science University of Alberta, 6200 MD Maastricht Edmonton Netherlands Alberta, Canada T6G 2HI.

All about Chess and Computers

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914894025
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book All about Chess and Computers written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Computer Chess

Author : Monroe Newborn
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483218902
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Computer Chess written by Monroe Newborn and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer Chess deals with the history of computer chess games and the programming of computer chess. Topics covered include chess programs such as the one initiated by Richard Greenblatt and those launched by the United States and the USSR in 1966-1967. The United States Computer Chess Championships from 1970 to 1973 are also discussed. Comprised of 10 chapters, this book begins with a historical overview of the basic ideas underlying computer chess and several of the earliest computer games. The next chapter deals with the chess match held in 1966 pitting the Kotok-McCarthy Chess Program of the United States and the ITEP (Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics) Chess Program of the Soviet Union. The reader is then introduced to Greenblatt's program, named Mac Hack Six, the first chess program to compete respectably against humans in tournament play. Subsequent chapters focus on the U.S. Computer Chess Championships, from its first edition in New York in 1970 to the fourth, held in Atlanta in 1973. Russia's chess program called KAISSA, an improved version of the ITEP Chess Program, is also described. The final chapter is devoted to OSTRICH, a chess-playing program written by George Arnold in the Digital Computer Laboratory of Columbia University's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1971. This monograph will be of value to computer science and those interested in computer chess programs and in the broader field of artificial intelligence.

Play Winning Chess Against Computers

Author : Eric Dana
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508636977
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Play Winning Chess Against Computers written by Eric Dana and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play Winning Chess Against Computers Chess computers are great. As chess players We get a quality opponent ready to play whenever we are. Whether it's at home on a desktop or out with a laptop, or even on a smartphone. The only problem is the that the things are just so darn hard to beat! Now with this new book by National Master Eric Dana you will learn the secrets to beating the chess computers. This is not to say that you will always win, some of these programs are rated higher than the top players in the world. This book cannot promise that, but it will promise to improve your chances and score much better when playing against the machines. Some chapters include: The history of computer chess How computers play chess (What they do well, and what they do poorly) General tips when playing against computers Three specific plans to win or draw more often How to handle online chess players who use computers to cheat Resources relating to computer chess (including free software & films) This ebook is loaded with diagrams so that it is easy to read without a chessboard (although you will get more out of the book if you do follow along with a chess set). Please note that this book assumes you know how to play chess, read chess notation, and understand common chess terminology. In short, this is the most complete book ever written on defeating computers at chess.

The Joy of Computer Chess

Author : David N. L. Levy
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Joy of Computer Chess written by David N. L. Levy and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1984 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaches Chess Players the Principles of Chess Programming & How the Computer "Decides" which Move to Make. Teaches How to Write Their Own Chess Programs

More Chess and Computers

Author : David N. L. Levy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book More Chess and Computers written by David N. L. Levy and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

380 Winning Chess Against the Chess Computers at the Top Level

Author : J. C. Greenon
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514110546
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book 380 Winning Chess Against the Chess Computers at the Top Level written by J. C. Greenon and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To win against the chess computers at the top level is very difficult, you must make many sacrifices; without that, it's almost impossible to win against them. Look at these 380 winning chess in playing with the black pieces to understand that reality

The New Chess Computer Book

Author : T. D. Harding
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483140326
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book The New Chess Computer Book written by T. D. Harding and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Chess Computer Book is a revised edition of The Chess Computer Book that contains more than 50 percent new material about chess-playing microcomputers. Since the first edition of the book was written there have been large numbers of machines launched, some of which the author has been able to test over a long period. Inevitably there are new chess-playing, microcomputers machines, and updated modules for older ones, coming out all the time, with launch dates for machines in different countries often being different, due to commercial considerations. However, an attempt has been made to discuss in detail every top-of-the-range machine available on the British market. The book begins with a brief survey of the origins of chess computing and the development of chess-playing machines. This is followed by separate chapters on topics such as the types of machines that play chess; modular chess computers; computer hardware and software; and developments in chess microcomputers in the latter half of 1984.