Computers Play Chess; Humans Play Go

Computers Play Chess, Computers Play Go...Humans Play Dungeons & Dragons

Deus Ex Machina - A Higher Creative Species in the Game of Chess

basic paradigm that computer programs employ is known as “search and evaluate.” Their static evaluation is arguably more primitive than the perceptual one of humans. Yet the intelligence emerging from them is phenomenal. A human spectator cannot tell the difference between a brilliant computer game and one played by Kasparov. Chess played by today’s machines looks extraordinary, full of imagina...

From MiniMax to Manhattan

The thinking-process for playing chess by computer is significantly different, from that used by humans. Also, computer hardware/software has evolved considerably in the half century since minimax was first, proposed as a method for computers to play chess. In this paper we look at. the technology behind today’s chess programs, how it has developed, its current, status, and explore some directi...

Computing the Aesthetics of Chess

Aesthetics in chess is a concept competent players are quite familiar with. For many, it is one of the main reasons they play. Much of the research with regard to chess however, has been towards making machines play better and to understand how humans think. This article explores the principles of chess aesthetics and proposes a computational model based on those principles. An experiment was c...

Computational Intelligence Meets Game of Go @ IEEE WCCI 2012 [Society Briefs]

Since 2008, National University of Tainan (NUTN) in Taiwan and other academic organizations have hosted or organized several human vs. challenged the humans in the competition. In addition to observing how many advances have been made in artificial intelligence, the competition also observed physiological measurements for testing cognitive science on the game of Go. The topic is " the Most Stra...