The 8th ICCA World Computer-Chess Championship

WCCC 2017: The 23rd World Computer Chess Championship

The 22nd World Computer Chess Championship started on June 27, 2016. Six programs participated in a double round robin tournament, see Table 1 (CPW 2016a-u; Krabbenbos et al., 2016). The tournament took place at Leiden University and was organized by the ICGA, LIACS and LCDS. It was sponsored by Google, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the municipality of Leiden, Leiden University, its Faculty of...

19th World Computer-Bridge Championship

Computer Analysis of World Chess Champions1

Who is the best chess player of all time? Chess players are often interested in this question that has never been answered authoritatively, because it requires a comparison between chess players of different eras who never met across the board. In this contribution, we attempt to make such a comparison. It is based on the evaluation of the games played by the World Chess Champions in their cham...

Computer Analysis of World Chess Champions

Who is the best chess player of all time? Chess players are often interested in this question that has never been answered authoritatively, because it requires comparison between chess players of different eras who never met across the board. In this paper, we attempt such a comparison based on the evaluation with a chess playing program of games played by the world chess champions in their cha...

World-championship-caliber Scrabble

Computer Scrabble programs have achieved a level of performance that exceeds that of the strongest human players. MAVEN was the first program to demonstrate this against human opposition. Scrabble is a game of imperfect information with a large branching factor. The techniques successfully applied in two-player games such as chess do not work here. MAVEN combines a selective move generator, sim...