Manuel Cristóbal López-Michelone
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Manuel Cristóbal López-Michelone, (Morsa)
a Mexican FIDE master of chess [2], blogger and chess columnist, computer scientist and professor at department of computer science, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Description Language for Chess
Along with Jorge Luis Ortega-Arjona, Manuel Cristóbal López-Michelone introduced a pattern description language for chess positions, published in ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1 [3]:
The game of chess involves patterns. In this article we develop a simple description language for chess positions as patterns. It seems useful to catalogue similar positions in a generic form, based on common elements, in order to simplify the search for chess positions. A simple chess pattern language is used here to develop a computer program to find similar chess configurations. The aim is to avoid a commonly-used brute force approach. Further, this language could explain why some typical maneuvers actually work in some patterns. This could also be a step forward to model and build chess programs, which perform in a way closer to what a human being does.
The instructions of the language are:
- A(B) – Piece A attacks/defends Piece B
- A(square) – Piece A attacks square
- A square – Piece A at square
- taboo(square) – Make a square unavailable to defender
- action(chess movement) – The recommended move for the pattern
- structw([list of pawns]) – Defines the structure of the white pawns on the board
- structb([list of pawns]) – Defines the structure of black pawns on the board
- Logical connectors(“,”, “;”) – “,” is AND, “;” is OR.
- Single line comments can be made with the “//” delimiter, for example, //This is a comment.
Selected Publications
External Links
- Lopez Michelone, Manuel FIDE Chess Profile
- Blog de La_Morsa
- M. en C. Manuel Cristóbal López Michelone
- Manuel López Michelone, Autor en Proceso Portal de Noticias
- Morsa VS Kaspárov en la UNAM, YouTube Video