Computers, Chess, and Cognition

Ken Thompson T. Anthony Marsland Jonathan Schaeffer,Jonathan Schaeffer

ISBN 10: 0387974156 / ISBN 13: 9780387974156

Published by Springer, 1990

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Title: Computers, Chess, and Cognition

Publisher: Springer

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

Computers, Chess, and Cognition presents an excellent up-to-date description of developments in computer chess, a rapidly advancing area in artificial intelligence research. This book is intended for an upper undergraduate and above level audience in the computer science (artificial intelligence) community. The chapters have been edited to present a uniform terminology and balanced writing style, to make the material understandable to a wider, less specialized audience. The book's primary strengths are the description of the workings of some major chess programs, an excellent review of tree searching methods, discussion of exciting new research ideas, a philosophical discussion of the relationship of computer game playing to artificial intelligence, and the treatment of computer Go as an important new research area. A complete index and extensive bibliography makes the book a valuable reference work. The book includes a special foreword by Ken Thompson, author of the UNIX operating system.