ICGA Journal - Volume 12, issue 3

Authors: Herschberg, Bob | van den Herik, Jaap

Article Type: Editorial

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12301

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 125-126, 1989

Authors: Herschberg, Bob | van den Herik, Jaap

Article Type: Editorial

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12302

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 126-126, 1989

Authors: Michie, Donald

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Computer-hostile chess; upset at Long Beach; Deep Thought vs. Bent Larsen; good in parts; Dominic Lawson vs. Deep Thought; use of knowledge; grandmaster backlash; obscurity of machine strategies; grandmasters sheltered from complexity; machine strategies not necessarily explainable; chess and science; limits to human theory-construction; limits to graspability of solutions; complexity impasse; the protein prediction problem; endgames of molecular science.

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12303

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 127-143, 1989

Authors: Herschberg, I.S. | van den Herik, H.J. | Schoo, P.N.A.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The extreme complexity of chess endgames with five or more men occasionally tempts human experts into making necessarily incomplete and sometimes erroneous statements. To some extent, increased computational speed and expanded memory, when combined with a full-width backward-chaining procedure nowadays may result in databases which embrace complete knowledge over a certain endgame domain. The major remaining problem after having obtained such knowledge is not (trivially) indicating the best move, but explaining why this move should be best. In other words: the true task is the formulation of rules and strategies implying how the endgame should be played. The present …article broaches the subject by verifying, via a database, two statements of Troitzky’s (1934) about the domain KNNKP(h). The statements are found to be unassailable in all details. The present work extends Troitzky’s by a few maximin results. Depth charts (Roycroft, 1986) are discussed as a potential limited aid towards formulating a strategy. The new notion of tablebases is introduced, whereas a slight generalization in tablebase construction permits a relatively comfortable way of verifying strategies. Show more

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12304

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 144-154, 1989

Authors: Donskoy, Mikhail | Schaeffer, Jonathan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Research in computer chess has been active for over three decades. Over that period, computer chess has fallen from the position of being a prominent research application in artificial intelligence to a peripheral area. In this paper, we take a retrospective look at what has been accomplished, in order to understand where the field is today and where it is headed tomorrow. Whereas the past has often been clouded by engineering passing as science, misspent effort for short-term gains, and research results with little applicability to other domains, there is evidence that computer chess is emerging from the shadow of …its past and may now be recapturing some of its lost stature in the research world. Show more

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12305

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 155-163, 1989

Authors: Zellner, Hans

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12306

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 163-164, 1989

Authors: Falk, L. | The Editorial Board,

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12307

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 165-166, 1989

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12308

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 167-167, 1989

Authors: Hartmann, Dap

Article Type: Book Review

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12309

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 168-169, 1989

Authors: Marsland, T.A.

Article Type: Book Review

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12310

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 169-169, 1989

Authors: Uiterwijk, Jos

Article Type: Book Review

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12311

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 170-171, 1989

Authors: Zsifkov, Nicolae | Mircea, Lascu

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12313

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 172-172, 1989

Authors: Reinefeld, Alexander

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12312

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 172-172, 1989

Authors: van Bergen, Ard

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12314

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 173-174, 1989

Authors: The Editorial Board,

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12315

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 174-176, 1989

Authors: Hartmann, Dap

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12316

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 177-181, 1989

Authors: Berliner, Hans

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12317

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 182-183, 1989

Authors: Valvo, Mike

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12318

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 183-190, 1989

Authors: The DT team,

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12319

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 191-191, 1989

Authors: The Editors, T

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12320

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 192-192, 1989

Authors: Jansson, Torbjörn | Pahlén, Hans

Article Type: Short Communication

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12321

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 193-193, 1989

Authors: Mysliwietz, Peter

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12323

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 194-194, 1989

Authors: Althöfer, Ingo

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12324

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 194-194, 1989

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12322

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 194-194, 1989

Authors: Michie, Donald

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12326

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 195-195, 1989

Authors: Abundo, Casto P.

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12325

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 195-195, 1989

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12327

Citation: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 196-197, 1989