- Paperback: 120 pages
- Publisher: Dissertation.com (December 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1581120095
- ISBN-13: 978-1581120097
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.7 x 0.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 163 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,921,935 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This paper concentrates on formulating heuristics for playing chess which 'must be broad enough to encompass the best moves, yet selective enough to avoid wasting time on the absurd lines of play' [8 p. 158] These 'broad yet selective' heuristics are evidenced in human play, because studies show that the chess master subjects only a few moves to detailed analysis [7]. Read the first page
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This paper concentrates on formulating heuristics for playing chess which 'must be broad enough to encompass the best moves, yet selective enough to avoid wasting time on the absurd lines of play' [8 p. 158] These 'broad yet selective' heuristics are evidenced in human play, because studies show that the chess master subjects only a few moves to detailed analysis [7]. Read the first page
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Good, but could be better.,
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This review is from: Beautiful Mates: Applying Principles of Beauty to Computer Chess Heuristics (Paperback)
An interesting read, but don't agree that Beauty is the factor that makes a chess player better. The eight concepts quoted from Margulies do not always help the computer play chess in a more human way. I think the human chess player has more principles used. For example, setting traps, pins and using combos. The human is more creative and doesn't use Beauty as described in the book to determine his/her actions. It is a far cry from playing like Fischer. This just shows how much more we have yet to explore in human learning and cognition.
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Very unimportant research.,
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This review is from: Beautiful Mates: Applying Principles of Beauty to Computer Chess Heuristics (Paperback)
This dissertation investigations problems of the mate-in-two variety, and shows that a few heuristics that correspond to the human concept of "beauty" tend to reduce solution times (10% to 33%). My disappointment arises because this is not a difficult problem; there isn't a chess program on the marketplace that can't solve mate-in-N problems in the blink of an eye. Furthermore, the advantage obtained through these heuristics is very minor; on a small sample of positions it is always possible to tune one's chess engine to obtain comparable speed-ups. My conclusion is that the author's time at the University of Sussex was not well spent.
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Disappointing,
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This review is from: Beautiful Mates: Applying Principles of Beauty to Computer Chess Heuristics (Paperback)
This is a book bound version of a simple article comparing simple chess heuristics and simple + "beauty" heuristics as an attempt to emulate human chess thinking, where the "beauty" heuristics follow now outdated ideas in human 'intuition". The resulting programs are subjected to relatively simple mate in 2, 3 and the odd mate in 4 and 5 chess problems. The resulting time and nodes analysed between the two systems are probably statistically insignificant as only 24 problems are studied. An interesting read, but by no means revolutionary.
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Original and Interesting - when is there a follow up??,
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This review is from: Beautiful Mates: Applying Principles of Beauty to Computer Chess Heuristics (Paperback)
This is an orginal book, following an interesting proposal to get Computer chess games to 'think' more like human players. It is clear the author values this approach more than current 'brute force' search, and I must admit, I am swayed by his arguments (e.g. that the Deep Blue v Kasparov match did nothing to advance computer chess) - although I could have done with more results to convince me. I think the reader from Concord, MA missed the point of the book - the author never says he is proposing a 'better' (i.e. higher ELO) chess program - just one that thinks and plays more like a human (from an AI research perspective). To conclude, if you are looking for a book about conventional (outdated?) computer chess programming then this is of little interest. However, if you are after a novel book on the quest to 'capture' what goes on in the human mind when analysing problems, and how to represent that in, for example, chess problems, then this book is a good starting point.
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