There has been debates for years on how to rate chess players living and playing at different periods (see Keene and Divinsky (1989)). Some attempts were made to rank them not on the results of games played, but on the moves played in these games, evaluating these moves with computer programs. However, the previous attempts were subject to different criticisms, regarding the strengths of the pr...

Well known classical backgammon is an ancient two-player game, at least a thousand years, older than chess according to some estimates. It is a game of luck and skill, because it involves dices. In this work we construct a new backgammon which we call No Chance Backgammon since it does not involve the dice. Instead of a random element, players choose their own numbers under certain constraints ...

Using the game of chess, this paper proposes an approach for the tuning of evaluation function parameters based on evolutionary algorithms. We introduce an iterative method for population member selection and show how the resulting win, loss, or draw information from competition can be used in conjunction with the statistical analysis of the population to develop evaluation function parameter v...

Kriegspiel is a variant of the game of Chess, introduced to make it more similar to wargames. It mainly differs from Chess in that players can only see their own pieces: they have to refer to a neutral agent – the umpire, or referee – to acquire additional, but always incomplete, information. This paper deals with the development of a visual interface to play Kriegspiel over the Internet Chess ...

Falsification may demarcate science from non-science as the rational way to test the truth of hypotheses. But experimental evidence from studies of reasoning shows that people often find falsification difficult. We suggest that domain expertise may facilitate falsification. We consider new experimental data about chess experts’ hypothesis testing. The results show that chess masters were readil...

a r t i c l e i n f o This study analyzed sex differences in chess Elo ratings with chess tournament data. We evaluated whether sex differences were due to differential participation rates of males and females, and whether age and practice were able to predict differences in chess ability. There were meaningful sex differences in Elo ratings unrelated to different participation rates. Age and p...

Novice, intermediate, and expert chess players of various ages, playing with two chess pieces on a quarter-section of a chessboard, performed a simple task to detect that the king is in check or is threatened with being in check. Age slowed response for both tasks. An interaction of task and skill revealed differences in diminishing response time between check and threat tasks as skill increase...

Chess has spawned a great deal of successful research in the artificial intelligence (AI) community. The strength of some chess programs can be compared to top-level human players. Nevertheless, most of the AI research has been focused on the refinement of evaluation functions which are used to search the NP-complete solution space. Some optimizations have also been made to the arrangement in w...

We analyze 4-player chaturanga (an ancient variant of chess) using the methods of empirical game theory. Like chess, this game is computationally challenging due to an extremely large strategy space. From the perspective of game theory, it is more interesting than chess because it has more than 2 players. Removing the 2-player restriction allows multiple equilibria and other complex strategic i...