After reviewing the relevant theory on chess expertise, this paper re-examines experimentally the finding of Chase and Simon (1973a) that the differences in ability of chess players at different skill levels to copy and to recall positions are attributable to the experts' storage of thousands of chunks (patterned clusters of pieces) in long-term memory. Despite important differences in the expe...

“Music for 32 Chess Pieces” is a software system that supports composing, performing and improvising music by playing a chess game. A game server stores a representation of the state of a game, validates proposed moves by players, updates game state, and extracts a graph of piece-to-piece relationships. It also loads a plugin code module that acts as a composition. A plugin maps pieces and rela...

Zermelo’s 1928 paper on measuring participants’ playing strengths in chess tournaments is a remarkable work in the history of paired comparison modeling. Apart from several contemporary papers by Thurstone (1927a, 1927b, 1927c), Zermelo’s paper was an isolated excursion into paired comparison methods that was far ahead of its time. After this paper, the field remained mostly dormant for about 2...

One of the priorities system ethno-cultural training is development inclinations and abilities, realization intellectual potential individ-ual. The game chess a resource for mental person. In article, author offers brief overview history Kalmyk chess, as well shows effectiveness modern players, an analy-sis logical thinking, speed accuracy opera-tions, from origin to use artificial intelligence...

During the pioneering time of game-theoretic research in the first half of the past century, it was proved that the game of chess has a value, i.e., that either there is a winning strategy for White, or there is a winning strategy for Black, or both players can secure themselves a draw. Since then, a rich theory has developed for general games of perfect information,2 yet surprisingly little is...