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Chess Skill in Man and Machine

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Peter W. Frey

    1. CRESAP Laboratory of Neuroscience and Behavior, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. A brief history of the computer chess tournaments: 1970–1975

    • Benjamin Mittman
    Pages 1-33

  3. Human chess skill

    • Neil Charness
    Pages 34-53

  4. An introduction to computer chess

    • Peter W. Frey
    Pages 54-81

  5. CHESS 4.5—The Northwestern University chess program

    • David J. Slate, Lawrence R. Atkin
    Pages 82-118

  6. PEASANT: An endgame program for kings and pawns

    • Monroe Newborn
    Pages 119-130

  7. Plans, goals, and search strategies for the selection of a move in chess

    • Russell M. Church, Kenneth W. Church
    Pages 131-156

  8. The heuristic search: An alternative to the alpha—beta minimax procedure

    • Larry R. Harris
    Pages 157-166

  9. Man and machine: Chess achievements and chess thinking

    • Eliot Hearst
    Pages 167-200

  10. Belle

    • J. H. Condon, Ken Thompson
    Pages 201-210

  11. Using chess knowledge to reduce search

    • David Wilkins
    Pages 211-242

  12. Appendix CHESS 4.5: Competition in 1976

    • Peter W. Frey
    Pages 243-247

  13. Second Appendix CHESS 4.5 and CHESS 4.6: Competition in 1977 and 1978

    • Peter W. Frey
    Pages 248-256

  14. Appendix to the second edition

    • David J. Slate, Peter W. Frey
    Pages 257-314

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 243-332
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About this book

Ten years of intensive effort on computer chess have produced notable progress. Although the background information and technical details that were written in 1975 for the first edition of this book are still valid in most essential points, hardware and software refinements have had a major impact on the effectiveness of these ideas. The current crop of chess machines are performing at unexpectedly high levels. The approach epitomized by the series of programs developed by David Slate and Larry Atkin at Northwestern in the middle 1970s (i. e. , a sophisticated search algorithm using very little chess knowledge) was expected to reach an asymptbtic level of performance no higher than that of a class A player (USCF rating between 1800 and 2000). This perspective was argued quite vigorously by Eliot Hearst in Chapter 8 of the first edition and was held at that time by many chess experts. Subsequent events have clearly demonstrated that the asymptotic performance level for this type of pro­ gram it at least as high as the master level (USCF rating between 2200 and 2400). Current discussions now focus upon whether the earlier reser­ vations were wrong in principle or simply underestimated the asymptote. If there is a real barrier which will prevent this type of program from attaining a world championship level of performance, it is not evident from the steady progress which has been observed during the last decade.

Editors and Affiliations

  • CRESAP Laboratory of Neuroscience and Behavior, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

    Peter W. Frey

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Chess Skill in Man and Machine

  • Editors: Peter W. Frey

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5515-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag, New York Inc. 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-90815-1Published: 14 May 1984

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-5515-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 329

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: Originally published in the series: Texts and Monographs in Computer Science

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence

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