Computers, Chess, and Cognition

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Computers, Chess, and Cognition
edited by Tony Marsland and Jonathan Schaeffer
Foreword by Ken Thompson
Published 1990
by Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN: 0-387-97415-6

Contents

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 Strategies in a Chess Endgame.	Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Patrick Schoo	183
3.5.	Learning in Bebe ¹	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 and its Refinement in Go Programs	Kiyoshi Shirayanagi	287