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• The turing test of chess

  Chess is commonly known as a  game with "complete information". This particular nature of the game along with other spatiotemporal characteristics and use of logic have attracted since early days  great attention from computer programmers.   ... | Read More

  • satorichess
  • | Feb 2, 2012
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• Chess by numbers

    Yesterday I watched the trailer for the film Bobby Fischer against the world and the great Kasparov is saying that the number of total combinations in chess is something like 10 exponent 45....... Kasparov is wrong (once in a lifetime  so I ... | Read More

  • satorichess
  • | May 31, 2011
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• The queen's gambit

  I'm sure everybody knows about the "queen's gambit" opening it's probably the most famous opening just after the king pawn's opening. What maybe not everybody knows yet, is this is also a title of one of Walter Tevis book and one of my all time f... | Read More

  • satorichess
  • | Apr 4, 2011
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• Al Adli quiz problem

  This problem comes from an ancient Persian text Kitab ash-sharanj (the book of chess) and the author ad-Adli was known at his time (about 840 BC) as one of the best player of the Persian/Turkish area. His book was known as one of the first attempt... | Read More

  • satorichess
  • | Sep 29, 2009
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