Based upon the evidence that the best chess players in the world are becoming increasingly represented by relatively young individuals, Howard [Intelligence 27 (1999) 235–250.] claimed that human intelligence is rising over generations. We suggest that this explanation has several difficulties and show that alternative explanations relating to changes in the chess environment, including increas...

Chicken or Checkin’? Rational Learning in Repeated Chess Games We examine rational learning among expert chess players and how they update their beliefs in repeated games with the same opponent. We present a model that explains how equilibrium play is affected when players change their choice of strategy when receiving additional information from each encounter. We employ a large international ...

Chess players' positions in intransitive (rock-paper-scissors) relations are considered. Namely, position $A$ of White is preferable (it should be chosen if choice possible) to $B$ Black, Black $C$ White, $D$ but White. Intransitivity winningness chess considered a consequence complexity the environment - contrast with simpler games transitive only. Perfect values impossible. Euclidian metric c...

We present an ontology pattern describing records of chess games. Besides being an interesting modeling problem by itself, the fact that chess is one of the most popular game in the world with hundreds of millions of active players, including several millions online players led to a huge amount of chess game data available from various online chess databases. Furthermore, these data are becomin...

Chess is a strategic game in which players recognize the threats to their pieces and their opponents' pieces at any given time. Players also evaluate the affect each move will have on the balance of power in the game. Novice players often fail to detect threatened pieces of either color. They also find prediction difficult and frequently neglect to think ahead about the negative ramifications o...

Results from psychology show a connection between a speaker’s expertise in a task and the language he uses to talk about it. In this paper, we present an empirical study on using linguistic evidence to predict the expertise of a speaker in a task: playing chess. Instructional chess literature claims that the mindsets of amateur and expert players differ fundamentally (Silman, 1999); psychologic...

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...

Establishing heuristic-search based chess programs as appropriate tools for estimating human skill levels at chess may seem impossible due to the following issues: the programs’ evaluations and decisions tend to change with the depth of search and with the program used. In this research, we provide an analysis of the differences between heuristic-search based programs in estimating chess skill....