Report on the Workshop “Computer Chess and Game Trees”

Workshop Report: Theory and Practice in Computer Chess

The moderator opened the workshop with a summary of the good and bad points in a simple computer chess model. At present most chess programs use a progressively deepening full-width search to some fixed depth, say N-ply, following it with a selective search for the next K-ply to reach a horizon. From the horizon nodes, a narrow quiescence search to arbitrary depth assesses tactically threatenin...

Workshop Report on New Technologies for Chess

The moderator opened the session by briefly reviewing the highlights of the previous workshop, drawing the listener’s attention particularly to the contributions of those who were not present this year. He cited the work of Ken Thompson, who had described a hardware-software system for reliably transcribing game listings in chess books into machine readable form, thus making it possible to corr...

Advanced Computer Recognition of Aesthetics in the Game of Chess

This research intended to see if aesthetics within the game of chess could be formalized for computer recognition since it is often appreciated and sought after by human players and problem composers. For this purpose, Western or International chess was chosen because there is a strong body of literature on the subject, including its aesthetic aspect. Eight principles of aesthetics and ten them...

The Game of Chess

A Computer Vision System for Chess Game Tracking

In this paper, we present a real-time system that allows the detection of the moves of a chess game. In the proposed approach, each captured video frame, from a RGB webcam positioned over the chessboard, is processed through the following steps; the detection of the corner points of the chessboard grids, geometric rectification, chessboard position adjustment, automatic camera exposure adjustme...