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Peter Jozef Jansen,

a Belgian computer scientist and games researcher. As student at Carnegie Mellon University, he was member of the Deep Thought team [1]. His research interests were about “trappy”, speculative play and using knowledge about the opponent in game-tree search. Peter worked with Jonathan Schaeffer - his thesis supervisor was Herbert Simon. Together with Fernand Gobet he wrote the pattern learning chess application CHUMP (CHUnking of Moves and Patterns), which was introduced as A Chess Program Based on a Model of Human Memory [2] at the 7th Advances in Computer Chess conference, July 1-2, 1993.

Selected Publications

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Peter Jansen (1989). Problematic Positions and Speculative Play. Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search
Peter Jansen (1990). Problematic Positions and Speculative Play. Computers, Chess, and Cognition
Peter Jansen, Jonathan Schaeffer (1990). Seconding a Grandmaster. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1
Peter Jansen (1992). Using Knowledge about the Opponent in Game-Tree Search. Ph.D. thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, pdf
Peter Jansen (1992). KQKR: Awareness of a Fallible Opponent. ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3
Peter Jansen (1992). KQKR: Assessing the Utility of Heuristics. ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4
Peter Jansen (1993). KQKR: Speculatively Thwarting a Human Opponent. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1
Fernand Gobet, Peter Jansen (1994). Towards a Chess Program Based on a Model of Human Memory. Advances in Computer Chess 7
Fernand Gobet, Peter Jansen (2005). Training in Chess: A Scientific Approach. pdf