Chess engine analysis has revolutionized the way we approach the game, but it also poses a significant threat to our creative spirit. By providing players with access to precise evaluations and optimal move suggestions, engines often diminish the value of human intuition and original thought. Instead of exploring innovative strategies and unique ideas, players mayContinueContinue reading “Chess Engines, Creativity, and Gukesh”
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Chess: Super Computer Against Itself
If you had two identical Deep Blue machines playing chess against each other, would each win half the time? No, there still would be a first move advantage for white. I once created an experiment pitting the same version of stockfish against itself in a match consisting of 100 games played with equal amounts ofContinueContinue reading “Chess: Super Computer Against Itself”
Artificial Stupidity: One Google Engineer’s Algorithms for Bad Chess Playing – The New Stack
Murphy has the brainpower to pull it off. He tells us that in 2007 he defended his computer science Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon — which was the same year the students began holding the annual SIGBOVIK conference on April Fool’s Day. Sponsored by the “Association for Computational Heresy,” it was a kind of satirical specialContinueContinue reading “Artificial Stupidity: One Google Engineer’s Algorithms for Bad Chess Playing – The New Stack”
Open Source Chess Engine Reigns Supreme
The free and open source chess engine, Stockfish, is now ranked number 1 on the Computer Chess Ratings List. Stockfish is also the Grand Champion of season six’s Thoresen Chess Engine Championship. Congratulations to the Stockfish Team and the open source movement.
World Computer Chess Championships 2008
On 9/28/2008 the 16’th World Computer Chess Championships began in Beijing, China. The IGCA has scheduled an eleven round accelerated swiss tournament format for the top chess engines in the world to compete for the the title of World Computer Chess Champion 2008. The accelerated swiss structure strikes me as odd being that there are onlyContinueContinue reading “World Computer Chess Championships 2008”