Should Computers Participate in Chess Tournaments?

Computers in chess - solving inexact search problems

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Computers Play Chess, Computers Play Go...Humans Play Dungeons & Dragons

Computers Play Chess; Humans Play Go

A paired comparisons ranking and Swiss-system chess team tournaments

The paper reveals that the Weighted Logarithmic Least Squares Method used for deriving evaluations of alternatives from incomplete pairwise comparison matrices (iWLLSM) coincides with the recursive Buchholz ranking method applied in generalized tournaments, despite their different approach and calculation. We study it with respect to a set of new properties and present the strength of the metho...

Why should patients participate in research?

User participation was introduced as a key public instrument in Report no. 41 (1987 – 88) to the Storting, Health policy towards the year 2000: National health plan. The health policy goals included increased democratisation, user empowerment and legal safeguards. Questions regarding how services could be developed to meet patients with respect and empathy were highlighted, giving rise to a nee...