Playing Chess or Painting Pictures? Unpacking Entrepreneurial Intuition

Unpacking Intuition: A Conjecture.

Can intuition be taught? The way in which faces are recognized, the structure of natural classes, and the architecture of intuition may all be instances of the same process. The conjecture that intuition is a species of recognition memory implies that human intuitive decision making can be enormously enhanced by virtual simulation.

Evolving Chess Playing Programs

This contribution introduces a hybrid GP/ES system for the evolution of chess playing computer programs. We discuss the basic system and examine its performance in comparison to pre-existing algorithms of the type alphabeta and its improved variants. We can show that evolution is able to outperform these algorithms both in terms of eÆciency and strength.

Playing chess unconsciously.

Expertise in a certain stimulus domain enhances perceptual capabilities. In the present article, the authors investigate whether expertise improves perceptual processing to an extent that allows complex visual stimuli to bias behavior unconsciously. Expert chess players judged whether a target chess configuration entailed a checking configuration. These displays were preceded by masked prime co...

Motion Pictures: Consumers, Channels, and Intuition

Gambit: A Robust Chess-Playing Robotic System

This paper presents Gambit, a custom, mid-cost 6DoF robot manipulator system that can play physical board games against human opponents in non-idealized environments. Historically, unconstrained robotic manipulation in board games has often proven to be more challenging than the underlying game reasoning, making it an ideal testbed for small-scale manipulation. The Gambit system includes a low-...