Computer Chess Compendium
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Computer Chess Compendium
edited by David Levy
B.T. Batsford Ltd
London, U.K.
1988. 440 pages
ISBN 0-7134-4914-4
Contents
Contents
| Preface | page | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | 1 | |
| 1.1 | Programming a Computer for Playing Chess | Claude Shannon | 2 |
| 1.2 | Chess | Alan Turing | 14 |
| 1.3 | The Chess Machine: An Example of Dealing with a Complex Task by Adaptation |
Allen Newell | 18 |
| 2 | Famous Chess Programs | 28 | |
| 2.1 | Chess Playing Programs and the Problem of Complexity (excerpt) |
Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert Simon | 29 |
| 2.2 | Computer v Chess Player | Alex Bernstein, Michael de V. Roberts | 43 |
| 2.3 | A Chess Playing Program for the IBM 7090 | Alan Kotok | 48 |
| 2.4 | The Greenblatt Chess Program | Richard Greenblatt, Donald Eastlake, Stephen D. Crocker |
56 |
| 2.5 | The Technology Chess Program | James Gillogly | 67 |
| 2.6 | CHESS 4.5 - The Northwestern University Chess Program | Larry Atkin, David Slate | 80 |
| 2.7 | Cray Blitz | Robert Hyatt, Albert Gower, Harry Nelson | 104 |
| 3 | Position Evaluation | 112 | |
| 3.1 | Statistics for the Chess Computer and the Factor of Mobility | Eliot Slater | 113 |
| 3.2 | A Five-Year Plan for Automatic Chess (excerpt) | Jack Good | 118 |
| 4 | Tree Searching Techniques | 122 | |
| 4.1 | Tree-Searching and Tree-Pruning Techniques | John Birmingham, Peter Kent | 123 |
| 4.2 | Some Methods of Controlling the Tree Search in Chess Programs |
Georgy Adelson-Velsky, Vladimir Arlazarov, Mikhail Donskoy |
129 |
| 4.3 | The Heuristic Search and the Game of Chess. A Study of Quiescence, Sacrifices and Plan Oriented Play |
Larry Harris | 136 |
| 4.4 | A Theory of Evaluative Comments in Chess with a Note on Minimaxing |
Donald Michie | 143 |
| 5 | Analysis | 156 | |
| 5.1 | The Sequence of Phases | Adriaan de Groot | 157 |
| 5.2 | Skill in Chess | Herbert Simon, William Chase | 175 |
| 5.3 | Decision Making and Computers | Mikhail Botvinnik | 189 |
| 5.4 | A Chess Mating Combinations Program | George Baylor, Herbert Simon | 196 |
| 5.5 | Robot Chess | Dietrich Prinz | 213 |
| 6 | Writing a Chess Program | 220 | |
| 6.1 | A Computer Chess Tutorial | Norman Whaland | 221 |
| 6.2 | Using Patterns and Plans in Chess | David Wilkins | 233 |
| 6.3 | Mate at a Glance | John Birmingham, Peter Kent | 258 |
| 7 | Special Purpose Software and Hardware | 266 | |
| 7.1 | Some Ideas for a Chess Compiler | Mike Clarke | 267 |
| 7.2 | Robots | Henri Vigneron | 273 |
| 7.3 | CHEOPS: A Chess-orientated Processing System | John Moussouris, Jack Holloway, Richard Greenblatt |
279 |
| 7.4 | BELLE: Chess Hardware | Joe Condon, Ken Thompson | 286 |
| 8 | The Endgame | 293 | |
| 8.1 | Co-ordinate Squares: A Solution to Many Chess Pawn Endgames |
Kenneth W. Church | 295 |
| 8.2 | Goal-Directed Search in Chess Endgames | Jaap van den Herik | 316 |
| 8.3 | Computer Analysis of a Rook End-Game | Vladimir Arlazarov, Aaron L. Futer | 330 |
| 9 | Games Played by Chess Programs | 337 | |
| 9.1 | Games from the ACM Tournaments | 338 | |
| 9.2 | Games from the World Computer Championships | 382 | |
| 9.3 | Blitz Games between Computers and Human Players | 408 | |
| 9.4 | Simultaneous Games between Computer Programs and Human Players | 410 | |
| 9.5 | Games Played by Computer Programs in Human Tournaments | 411 | |
| 9.6 | Miscellaneous Games played by Computer Programs | 418 | |
| 9.7 | The World Microcomputer Championships | 419 | |
| Bibliography | 421 | ||
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