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 Computer chess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The prime motivations for computerized chess playing have been solo entertainment (allowing players to practice and to amuse themselves when no human players are available), their use in chess analysis, and as research to provide insights into human cognition.
Chess game viewers allow players to view a pre-recorded game on a computer.
In some strategy games, computers easily win every game, while in others they are regularly beaten even by amateurs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess   (4430 words)

  
 Chess
Computers can beat the world's best chess players but have yet to master other classic games like Go.
Whereas a chess player sees the disposition of all the pieces all the time, a poker player sees only some of the cards -- drawn or dealt from a shuffled deck -- that are in play."
May 25, 2005: Only a pawn in its game.
http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/chess.html   (3473 words)

  
 Computer Chess
When playing a game of chess, the opening usually steers the game.
At the beginning of a chess game the white side has a choice of 20 moves.
To study such issues, many scientists have chosen the game of the game of chess.
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/groups/honors-program/freshsem/19951996/rsuchak   (1259 words)

  
 Computer Chess / Chess Engines (Winboard) & Chess Programming Info [Chessopolis > Chess Links]
Jim's Chess Strategy - Specifically, these are Jim's anti-computer chess strategies, with most of the advice being for when you are playing with the black pieces.
Alberta GAMES Group - An academic research group -- includes a respository of papers (in PostScript format) regarding chess and game programming.
Bibliography on Machine Learning in Strategic Game Playing - a list of publications on how computers can learn to play strategic games.
http://www.chessopolis.com/cchess.htm   (1145 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "How Chess Computers Work"
Once a player understands the basic rules that control each piece, he or she can "play" chess.
If you have ever watched a person first learning to play chess, you know that a human chess player starts with very limited abilities.
Strategies and tactics develop to guide the player through each game.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/chess.htm   (276 words)

  
 Daily Chess Columns
Early computers were able to generate and evaluate about 500 positions per seconds, or 90,000 in three minutes that are available per move in a tournament game.
He was very interested in chess, but in spite of having a brilliant intellect and putting a lot of effort into learning the game he remained a fairly weak player.
Very often a program will play fifteen or twenty moves of a game before it begins to compute for the first time.
http://www.chessbase.com/columns/column.asp?pid=102   (2279 words)

  
 Computer Chess
In trying to decide on a strategy, a human chess player tries to combine general concepts such as putting pressure on a weak point with specific variations ("If I go here, then he'll go there").
For instance, a chess player's "sense of danger" will certainly be aroused by an unprotected King.
With alpha-beta pruning, the Alekhine-Lasker position is still out of reach, but the level of play is strong enough to give tough competition to all but the expert or master-strength player.
http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/computer_chess.php   (1900 words)

  
 G13GAM -- Game Theory -- computer chess notes
Chess problems ["White to play and mate in 3", or whatever] are different from games, where you don't really care how many moves it takes to win.
In the final stages of a game of chess, there are often very few pieces on the board, and the number of configurations is small enough to allow exhaustive analysis and the construction of databases of the outcomes.
This is particularly useful in games like chess and go where transpositions [reaching the identical position by two or more different routes] are likely.
http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/anw/G13GT1/compch.html   (3724 words)

  
 Computer Chess
Chess Commander allows you to save and restore the game at any time, you can even take back an unlimited numbers of moves if you are not doing so well.
The full version contains 4 computer opponents - each one is like a different player with its own playing style, strengths and weaknesses.
This may be cheating but by going back and trying different moves you can quickly learn to play better!
http://www.chesscommander.com/computerchess.htm   (159 words)

  
 WebChess
Chess puzzles, openings, live games, tournaments, prizes, etc.
Just Chess - improve your game with tips and tricks
ChessManiac - play against another person via a web interface.
http://chess.delorie.com   (194 words)

  
 Computer Chess
Write a program to play chess (checkers, othello, go, backgammon, etc.).
As speed is not a negliable factor for a strong program, fast move generation may become crucial to it's playing strength.
I will try to arrange some chess competition for the participants in the course.
http://www.it.lth.se/users/janeric/courses/chess   (1749 words)

  
 Chess News, Chess Programs, Databases - Play Chess Online
Aron Nimzowitsch was not just a great tournament player, his contributions to opening theory (Nimzowitch Defense, Nimzo-Indian) and to chess ideas in general (prophylaxis and blockade) have ensured his fame for as long as human beings continue to play chess.
The actual number turned out to be 105,000.
Turkish Chess Federation — going for the millions
http://www.chessbase.com   (1070 words)

  
 Louis Kessler's Chess and Computer Chess Links
Do an online search through a database of millions of chess games, or set up a position and see if it is in the database.
View some of the games of my program with this marvelous game viewer generated by the Palview program.
Provides a 2-Dimensional chessboard with a drag and drop interface that can keep track of a game and allows full customization of the bitmaps for the pieces, squares and border.
http://www.lkessler.com/cclinks.shtml   (1983 words)

  
 Chess Sets UK : The Chess SuperStore - Huge Sale!
Welcome to Chess Sets UK Specialists in Chess Set & Backgammon board games.
Go is a game of territorial capture- the primary objective is to encircle as much territory as possible.
The "Derby" Ebony 110mm D.weighted with Black Anegre Board
http://www.chess-sets-uk.co.uk   (218 words)

  
 Computer chess develops
By that we mean this: In the middle of a game, when many pieces remain in play, each player typically has 30 or 40 moves.
By another complete move, there would be 1 million, and by the third move, 1 billion.
Given that limitation, you can understand why human chess players scoffed at the prospect of being edged by silicon.
http://whyfiles.org/040chess/main4.html   (572 words)

  
 Computer Chess Game
For the accomplished chess player, it provides a fun way to play Blindfold Chess.
The 7-digit LCD allows a player to play with or without chess pieces!
There are over 1000 level setting combinations with a strength rating of 1750.
http://www.marketunltd.com/chess.html   (174 words)

  
 ICGA: ICGA Home Page
Computer and Games Conference 2006: Call for papers is now out...
Computer and Games conference 2006 (May 29 - May 31, 2006)
14th World Computer Chess Championship (May 25 - June 1, 2006)
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/icga   (176 words)

  
 Chess Sets from America's Largest Chess Store, Chess Pieces, Boards, & More
Demonstration boards, chess scorebooks, and everything for chess tournament play.
Backgammon, mah-jong, poker chip sets, gambling supplies, Go, Shogi, Chinese chess, Chinese checkers, dominoes, bridge computers, cribbage sets, checkers, and other games and computers.
Professional chess sets, roll-up chess boards, plastic tournament chess pieces, bags, and more.
http://www.chessusa.com   (310 words)

  
 Free computer chess download: download computer chess game
The play of the program can be variably adjusted to any strength, so that everyone can find an adequate chess partner.
Beetle Ju is aracde game like earth-digging, stone-falling and fun thinking games such as Boulder Dash, Supaplex and Digger.
Showing computer chess games from 1 to 1 of 1
http://www.gamealbum.com/keyword/computer%20chess   (173 words)

  
 Computer Chess
MacChess Apple MacIntosh freeware chess program by Wim van Beusekom
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/2640/comchess.htm   (34 words)

  
 Computer Chess - Digital Chess Network - Reloaded
Fritz 8 held a draw against World best chess player ever...
Shredder is again at the top of the list, while Junior 8 gets a few more ELO points than its predeccesor...
Computer Chess - Digital Chess Network - Reloaded
http://www.digichess.gr   (217 words)

  
 Computer Chess Programming
Exachess is a chess-database program for the Macintosh that can be used to store collections of chess games or to play games with with several chess-engines.
Computer Chess Programming is proudly powered by WordPress 1.5.2
A list of programs and scripts for generating chess diagrams.
http://chess.verhelst.org   (425 words)

  
 World Chess Championship : Computer Chess
Chess experts, on the other hand, vastly overestimate the time involved.
Computer experts vastly underestimate the time required to beat the World Champion.
http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/wcc-comp.htm   (23 words)

  
 Computer Chess News
Running on a Dual Macintosh, Shredder didn't lose one game and was the clear leader with 7.5 after nine rounds.
It goes beyond the six piece endgame table-bases and allows the user to prove winning lines.
Is this the first computer chess tournament where the winner was running on a Mac?
http://www.computerchessnews.com   (1734 words)

  
 Electronic chess computers from Excalibur, Novag, and Saitek at TheChessComputerStore.com
If you have never played chess before, we have chess games that can teach you how.
Click below to go directly to one of the following pages
Electronic chess computers from Excalibur, Novag, and Saitek at TheChessComputerStore.com
http://www.thechesscomputerstore.com   (395 words)

  
 Computer Chess Games : Play chess against computer!
Play as many chess games as you like at PostCardChess.Com!
Computer Chess Games : Play chess against computer!
Playing chess against the computer is a good way to improve your chess skills.
http://www.postcardchess.com/computerchess.html   (42 words)

  
 Computer Chess
REBEL versus Vishy Anand, the world no.2 chess player (Ischia, Italy, 1998), REBEL wins again.
Rebel 12, Rebel's most important games, other software.
Introduction to Computer Chess, technical articles on Computer Chess, how does a chess program work, that kind of techinical stuff.
http://members.home.nl/matador/chess.htm   (166 words)

  
 Computer Chess - Chess Magazine - Chess Computer ratings
The latter is what USERS want, but programmers inevitably have an eye on our Rating Lists, and are aware of the preponderance of computer-computer games which produces them!
Another factor is that Chess Players are MUCH more used to playing against Computers and Computer Programs than they were 5, 10, 15 years ago.
Computer Chess - Chess Magazine - Chess Computer ratings
http://www.elhchess.demon.co.uk/ehss.htm   (677 words)

  
 Chess Message Boards
[ Your Move Chess and Games Homepage ]
A place for chess players to speak about what interests them: chess or otherwise.
Discussion of anything and everything relating to chess playing software and machines.
http://www.talkchess.com   (86 words)

  
 Computer Chess, Computer Bridge, Computer Poker, Christianity
COMPUTER CHESS and BRIDGE specialists, also Backgammon and Poker:
PC CHESS programs Hiarcs, Fritz etc. plus SPECIAL offers!
On a personal level I have included some pages of family photos and references to my Christian faith!
http://www.elhchess.demon.co.uk   (200 words)

  
 14.3 Computer Chess
Computer chess is one area where the usually disparate worlds of AI and high-performance computing meet.
In addition, there is a very rigorous procedure to test the intelligence of a chess program-playing games against humans.
Before going on, let us state that our approach to parallelism (and hence speed) in computer chess is not the only one.
http://www.netlib.org/utk/lsi/pcwLSI/text/node341.html   (373 words)

  
 Play It Again Chess
Play it again chess is the toughest computer chess game on the internet.
Now you can re-live the match by downloading Rick's Casablanca Computer Chess Game, the toughest electronic chess game on the internet.
Who can ever forget that classic chess match between Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre in Casablanca where Bogey beat Lorre 8 times.
http://www.angelfire.com/nv/Chess/chess.html   (100 words)

  
 Omid's Computer Chess Website
I used to participate in chess tournaments intensively from a young age, but currently I spend most of my time on computer chess, which was also the subject of my M.Sc.
In World Computer Chess Championship 2003 which was held in Graz, Austria, Falcon reached the 10th place (out of 16 participants).
In World Computer Chess Championship 2004 which was held in Bar-Ilan University, Falcon reached shared 7th place, and in World Computer Speed Chess Championship 2004 it reached shared 3rd place.
http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~davoudo   (192 words)

  
 Shredder Computer Chess Download - Home
The Shredder chess programs by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen have already won ten titles as World Computer Chess Champion, are leading in all important computer chess rating lists and are accepted as the best chess programs for PCs.
Get Shredder and other chess software, free chess download, online chess and information and news about computer chess here on our site.
Since 1996, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's Shredder chess program has won ten titles as World Computer Chess Champion.
http://www.shredderchess.com   (157 words)

  
 Computer Chinese Chess
Welcome to Computer Chinese Chess (Computer Xiangqi) Home page
That site is all about Chinese Chess on computer: general issues, software, open sources, techniques.
It is mainly for promotion of Computer Chinese Chess software.
http://www.nchess.com   (45 words)

  
 Bar-Ilan University - World Computer Chess Championship 2004
Bar-Ilan University - World Computer Chess Championship 2004
http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/games   (8 words)

  
 Computer Chess
Gerbil is a fully functional chess engine that you can download.
You get everything -- the source, the executable (a Winboard engine), and an opening book.
Send mail to brucemo@seanet.com with questions or comments about this web site.
http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/chess.htm   (69 words)

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