Computer Chess Compendium

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Computer Chess Compendium Computer Chess Compendium

London, U.K.

440 pages

ISBN 0-7134-4914-4

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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 Searchin 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 EvaluativeComments 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