*Correspondence: [email protected] 1Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering PAS, Warsaw, Poland Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract Background: The chess game is a good example of cognitive task which needs a lot of training and experience. The aim of this work is to compare applicability of two nonlinear methods Higuchi Fract...

Chess involves the capacity to reason iteratively about potential intentional choices of an opponent and therefore involves high levels of explicit theory of mind [ToM] (i.e. ability to infer mental states of others) alongside clear, strategic rule-based decision-making. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used on 12 healthy male novice chess players to identify cortical regions associate...

The goal of the proposed project is to correctly detect and identify a chessboard and the configuration of its pieces through the application of image processing techniques. Such an algorithm could be used to automatically record a game between two players without the need for a digital chess set, which can cost hundreds of dollars. In addition, image-based detection of chess pieces is a vital ...

In this paper, we report the results of experiments in which we trained four chess evaluation functions on games of weak chess players in four different rating groups, with the goal of reproducing computer players of that strength. Although the differences in playing strength between the players loosely correlates to the playing strength of the training data, this goal could not be achieved bec...

This article describes the current state of computer Chinese chess (Xiang Qi). For two reasons, Chinese-chess programming is important in the field of Artificial Intelligence. First, Chinese chess is one of the most popular and oldest board games worldwide; currently the strength of a Chinesechess program can be compared to that of human players. Second, the complexity of Chinese chess is betwe...

The template theory presented in Gobet and Simon (1996a, 1998) is based on the EPAM theory (Feigenbaum & Simon, 1984; Richman et al., 1995), including the numerical parameters that have been estimated in tests of the latter; and it therefore offers precise predictions for the timing of cognitive processes during the presentation and recall of chess positions. This paper describes the behavior o...

It is difficult to overstate the profound impact that game theory has had on the economic approach and on the sciences more generally. For that reason, understanding how closely the assumptions that underpin game theoretic analysis conform to actual human decision-making is a question of first-order importance to economists. In this spirit, backward induction represents one of the most basic co...

We investigate a pool of international chess title holders born between 1901 and 1943. Using Elo ratings, we compute for every player his expected score in a game with a randomly selected player from the pool. We use this figure as the player's merit. We measure players' fame as the number of Google hits. The correlation between fame and merit is 0.38. At the same time, the correlation between ...