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Author : Robert Lohr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857574060
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Secrets of the Chess Machine written by Robert Lohr and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Löhr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780670916351
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The Secrets of the Chess Machine written by Robert Löhr and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vienna 1770 - Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, the Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really nothing more than a brilliant illusion. The chess machine is secretly operated from inside by the Italian dwarf Tibor, a God-fearing social outcast whose chess-playing abilities and diminutive size make him the perfect accomplice in this grand hoax. But when a beautiful and seductive countess dies under mysterious circumstances in the presence of the automaton, the Mechanical Turk falls under a cloud of suspicion, and the machine and its inventor become the target of espionage, persecution and aristocratic intrigue. From the leaden dungeons of Venice to the imperial court in Vienna, from the palaces of the Pressburg nobility to the alleyways of the Jewish quarter, The Secrets of the Chess Machine is the breathtaking historical adventure, based on a true story, of a legendary invention.
Author : Robert Löhr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780670916368
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The Secrets of the Chess Machine written by Robert Löhr and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vienna 1770 - Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, the Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really nothing more than a brilliant illusion. The chess machine is secretly operated from inside by the Italian dwarf Tibor, a God-fearing social outcast whose chess-playing abilities and diminutive size make him the perfect accomplice in this grand hoax. But when a beautiful and seductive countess dies under mysterious circumstances in the presence of the automaton, the Mechanical Turk falls under a cloud of suspicion, and the machine and its inventor become the target of espionage, persecution and aristocratic intrigue. From the leaden dungeons of Venice to the imperial court in Vienna, from the palaces of the Pressburg nobility to the alleyways of the Jewish quarter, The Secrets of the Chess Machine is the breathtaking historical adventure, based on a true story, of a legendary invention.
Author : Bradley Ewart
Publisher : A. S. Barnes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Chess, Man Vs. Machine written by Bradley Ewart and published by A. S. Barnes. This book was released on 1980 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Löhr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Chess Machine written by Robert Löhr and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen dazzles the public with the "creation" of an automated chess-playing machine that is secretly operated from within by an outcast Italian dwarf, until the mysterious death of a seductive countess places the machine under suspicion.
Author : Lyudmil Tsvetkov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781522041405
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (414 download)
Download or read book The Secret of Chess written by Lyudmil Tsvetkov and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the secrets of chess from the only person able to beat the world number 1 chess engine Stockfish.Learn chess 5 times easier through pattern recognition.Attain deep chess knowledge in an intuitive way through a wealth of diagrams(more than 500).Read about topics no other chess author has ever discussed in the past.This book is an entertaining story, combining in one all the elements of positional evaluation in chess.Learn things from the future of chess.Learning straight from the author who has contributed a lot for the development of the strongest chess engine on Earth, Stockfish.ABOVE sentences someone might find conceited, but are mostly true.In this book you will find everything one needs to know about positional evaluation, from tactical features,like pins and discovered checks, to deeply strategic ones, like pointed chains and king shelter weaknesses.The book has incorporated almost all of the concepts available in other reference material, but that is just the start.No matter how unbelievable that might seem to you, half of the featured elements are completely NEW to chesstheory, a product of endless analsysis sessions with Stockfish and Komodo chess engines, as well as the use of statistical points, derived from a large number of high-quality game databases, one of which is TCEC, the strongest computer chesschampionship in the world, played at very long time control.So that, when you are reading this, the signature is not only mine, but partly also that of Stockfish and Komodo.The creative ideas are mine, but without the valuable help of the chess engines, I would never have been able to do thatthe same way.Please, don't be afraid by the numbers used for qualifying all evaluation features: this is done just for the sake ofprecision, but it is very easy to convert those numbers to usual human assessments. For example, if a feature is assessedwith +50cps(cp, centipawn is one hundredth of a full pawn material), that will mean the feature is good. When you see +100cps and above, the feature is very good. If between 0 and 20cps, the feature is still good and useful, but less so.Similarly, for features with negative values, the higher the value, the worse the specific feature is.One gets accustomed to these values and then everything is fine.The book gives a definition for each specific evaluation pattern, a diagram specifies it, and then you get more detailed information about the characteristics of the term, real-game examples and a mention of how frequent this term occurson the board.All this information is useful, as in this way you will get a better understanding of which terms are good and which bad,how good or bad a certain term is, be able to follow real-game examples and deduce everything about the usefulness of the term.As already observed, you will not find a more COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE on chess/chess evaluation than this one.The main asset of the book is its innovative approach and the great amount of high knowledge introduced.The book is suitable for all levels of chess, from beginner to advanced, as the approach it follows is based on pattern recognition. One just has to memorise the specific pattern featured on a diagram, and then apply it on the chess board!Nothing less, nothing more. The more terms you memorise, the better you will be at chess.MAKE NO MISTAKE: chess evaluation is the most important element in acquiring a better chess knowledge.You can play very good chess by being able to evaluate well, even if you are not able to calculate all lines very well,but the opposite is not quite true. If you don't know which positions are good and which bad, you will always bechoosing the bad ones!So, don't wait any longer, and just grab this UNIQUE chess knowledge guide, memorise all patterns inside and progressat chess much faster than you have ever thought possible.
Author : Alexander Beliavsky
Publisher : Gambit Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781901983524
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (835 download)
Download or read book Secrets of Chess Intuition written by Alexander Beliavsky and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intuition is central to all chess decision-making, and an understanding of its role is vital in improving one's game. Players who try to calculate everything to a finish are doomed to lose out to those who use their logical and intuitive abilities in harmony with one another. This book, the first devoted to the role of intuition in chess, explains how to allow your intuition to reach its full potential and provides guidance on the types of positions in which one should rely heavily on intuition, and on those where one ought to be more analytical.
Author : Alexander Kotov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784871878197
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (781 download)
Download or read book The Soviet School of Chess written by Alexander Kotov and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Soviet School of Chess" is one of the most important books ever written on chess. It starts with the pre-Soviet Era with the beginning of the 19th century and recounts not only the histories of their greatest players up to modern times but also the history of their ideas. A biography is provided for each of the greatest players plus examples from their games and their contributions to chess knowledge and chess opening theory. This revised edition has added in Algebraic Notation the complete scores of all 200 games referenced in the book plus the concluding diagram, in the appendix in the back. Here is the name of the player of white and black, the year the game was played, the opening and opening code, the number of moves, the result and the page in the book where the game is referenced. The games are in the order in which they are referenced in the book.
Author : Garry Kasparov
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610397878
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Deep Thinking written by Garry Kasparov and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capable of beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game. That moment was more than a century in the making, and in this breakthrough book, Kasparov reveals his astonishing side of the story for the first time. He describes how it felt to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent with the whole world watching, and recounts the history of machine intelligence through the microcosm of chess, considered by generations of scientific pioneers to be a key to unlocking the secrets of human and machine cognition. Kasparov uses his unrivaled experience to look into the future of intelligent machines and sees it bright with possibility. As many critics decry artificial intelligence as a menace, particularly to human jobs, Kasparov shows how humanity can rise to new heights with the help of our most extraordinary creations, rather than fear them. Deep Thinking is a tightly argued case for technological progress, from the man who stood at its precipice with his own career at stake.
Author : John Nunn
Publisher : Gambit Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Secrets of Pawnless Endings written by John Nunn and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald M. Levitt
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Turk, Chess Automaton written by Gerald M. Levitt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work contains a detailed discussion of the sizeable body of literature surrounding the Turk along with an extensive analysis of its hidden operation. A collection of published games played by the Turk, many, again, unknown for 200 years, is also included, along with numerous other games known to have been played elsewhere by the Turk's hidden directors."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Lyudmil Tsvetkov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549916786
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Human Versus Machine written by Lyudmil Tsvetkov and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My winning games against Stockfish and Komodo. This is for real. I have played over 50 thousand engine games, of which more than 10 thousand against Stockfish, and a large number against Komodo, so I have my fair share of wins. Read the book to learn what openings are suitable to handle the machines, how to impose your style of play, and how to approach the game in a tactically relevant way. The games are amply commented and diagrammed. You thought competition between humans and machines has already ended? Not at all, it has just started!
Author : Tom Standage
Publisher : Berkley Trade
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Turk written by Tom Standage and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part historical detective story, part biography, "The Turk" relates the saga of an unusual 18th-century robot--fashioned from wood to look like a man who was dressed like a Turk and played chess. 25 illustrations.
Author : Andrew Soltis
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849941556
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)
Download or read book 100 Chess Master Trade Secrets written by Andrew Soltis and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to become a chess master, there are certain things you need to know – essential tips and techniques that the masters know, and you need to learn. This incredibly useful book collects all these techniques together in one volume, so you can try them out, tick them off, and start on your path towards chess greatness. Arranged in chapters covering every aspect of chess, from openings to endgames, renowned chess author Andrew Soltis provides top 20 rundowns of these specific positions and techniques: chapters include Top 20 Sacrifices, Top 20 Crucial Middlegame Decisions, Top 20 Endgame Techniques and Top 20 Exact Endgames. Written in Andrew Soltis's eternally engaging and accessible style, this book will prove invaluable to any player who wants to become a chess master.
Author : A. G. Bell
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Machine Plays Chess? written by A. G. Bell and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1978 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974311029
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Clockwork Game written by Jane Irwin and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1769, the court of Empress Maria Theresia witnessed one of that era's most amazing feats of engineering: a machine that could play chess. Artfully constructed by a Hungarian nobleman named Wolfgang von Kempelen, the chess-machine played a unique game against each opponent, far surpassing the abilities of all its fellow automata. Throughout its eighty-five year career, audiences across Europe and the Americas flocked to see the mechanical marvel seemingly capable of human intelligence; Napoleon, Charles Babbage, and Benjamin Franklin were among its challengers, and Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay attempting to explain how it worked. Despite its demise over a hundred fifty years ago, its mystery continues to fascinate, and its audience's reaction to its Orientalist trappings casts fresh light on our present sense of the 'exotic'. Written and Illustrated by Jane Irwin, author of the Vögelein graphic novels, Clockwork Game retells the true story of the world's first chess-playing automaton, blending reality and fiction into a singular graphic novel.
Author : Stephen Baker
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547519435
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Final Jeopardy written by Stephen Baker and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-02-27 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “charming and terrifying” story of IBM’s breakthrough in artificial intelligence, from the Business Week technology writer and author of The Numerati (Publishers Weekly, starred review). For centuries, people have dreamed of creating a machine that thinks like a human. Scientists have made progress: computers can now beat chess grandmasters and help prevent terrorist attacks. Yet we still await a machine that exhibits the rich complexity of human thought—one that doesn’t just crunch numbers, or take us to a relevant web page, but understands and communicates with us. With the creation of Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy!-playing computer, we are one step closer to that goal. In Final Jeopardy, Stephen Baker traces the arc of Watson’s “life,” from its birth in the IBM labs to its big night on the podium. We meet Hollywood moguls and Jeopardy! masters, genius computer programmers and ambitious scientists, including Watson’s eccentric creator, David Ferrucci. We see how Watson’s breakthroughs and the future of artificial intelligence could transform medicine, law, marketing, and even science itself, as machines process huge amounts of data at lightning speed, answer our questions, and possibly come up with new hypotheses. As fast and fun as the game itself, Final Jeopardy shows how smart machines will fit into our world—and how they’ll disrupt it. “The place to go if you’re really interested in this version of the quest for creating Artificial Intelligence.” —The Seattle Times “Like Tracy Kidder’s Soul of a New Machine, Baker’s book finds us at the dawn of a singularity. It’s an excellent case study, and does good double duty as a Philip K. Dick scenario, too.” —Kirkus Reviews “Like a cross between Born Yesterday and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Baker’s narrative is both . . . an entertaining romp through the field of artificial intelligence—and a sobering glimpse of things to come.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
