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Computers, Chess, and Cognition Computers, Chess, and Cognition

Published 1990

ISBN: 0-387-97415-6

New Directions

Computers, Chess, and Cognition contains revised contributions from the WCCC 1989 Workshop New Directions in Game-Tree Search, May 29-30, 1989, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada [1] .

| Part | Title | Author(s) | Page


	Foreword
Ken Thompson	1

I
Man and Machine

1.1.
A Short History of Computer Chess
Tony Marsland	3

1.2.
Advances in Man-Machine Play
Danny Kopec	9

1.3.
1989 World Computer Chess Championship	Jonathan Schaeffer	33

1.4.
How Will Chess Programs Beat Kasparov?
David Levy	47

II
Chess Programs

2.1.
Deep Thought	Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, Murray Campbell, Andreas Nowatzyk	55

2.2.
Hitech	Hans Berliner, Carl Ebeling	79

2.3.
Cray Blitz	Robert Hyatt, Albert Gower, Harry Nelson	111

III
Computer Chess Methods

3.1
Tree Searching Algorithms
Hermann Kaindl	133

3.2
Experiments with the Null-move Heuristic
Gordon Goetsch, Murray Campbell	159

3.3.
Problematic Positions and Speculative Play
Peter Jansen	169

3.4.
Verifying and Codifying Strategiesin a Chess Endgame.
Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Patrick Schoo	183

3.5.
Learning in Bebe [3]	Tony Scherzer, Linda Scherzer, Dean Tjaden	197

3.6.
The Bratko-Kopec Test Revisited
Tony Marsland	217

IV
Computer Chess and A.I

4.1.
Chess as the Drosophila of AI
John McCarthy	227

4.2.
Brute Force in Chess and Science
Donald Michie	239

4.3
Perspectives on Falling from Grace
Mikhail Donskoy, Jonathan Schaeffer	259

V
A New Drosophila for AI?

5.1.
The Design and Evolution of Go Explorer
Ken Chen, Anders Kierulf, Martin Müller, Jürg Nievergelt	271

5.2.
Knowledge Representation andits Refinement in Go Programs
Kiyoshi Shirayanagi	287