Chess as a Social Value

Chess as a cognitive training

1. Chess in schools to improve intelligence Does playing chess improve the cognitive abilities of children? Can the game of chess help in "educating intelligence"? This document presents the results of six years (from 2005 to 2011) of trials in primary schools of different chess training strategies and a study of the relationship between chess training and improved skills and abilities of child...

Mining Chess Playing as a Complex Process

The main objective of this paper is checking whether, and to what extent, advanced process mining techniques can support efficient and effective knowledge discovery in complex domains. For this purpose, we focused on chess playing, and cast it as a process. A secondary objective is checking whether the discovered information can provide interesting insight in the game rules and strategies, and/...

Individualism as a Modern Social Anarchy

Social anarchism sometimes referred to as socialist anarchism is generally considered tobe the branch of anarchism which sees individual freedom as being dependent upon mutual aid. Socialanarchist consideration generally emphasizes community and social equality. Society in the modernperiod is in a critical situation of not only economy and social system, but also in the remarkableaspects of the...

(Re)telling chess stories as game content

Procedural story generation is an active and increasingly important area of interactive entertainment. Some of the most difficult challenges with the concept are generation and managing of dramatic elements with high degree of variation that are both internally consistent and entertaining. If an authoring system could access a large repository of proven sets of domain specific dramatic action s...

Chess Ratings as Data in Psychological