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Subject: Re: Most researched area of computer science...computer chess?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:04:50 10/20/03

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On October 20, 2003 at 23:51:41, Russell Reagan wrote:

>http://www.chess-archive.com/ccc.php?art_id=304166
>
>"I called computer chess "the most thoroughly researched area within compuer
>science", which is true as CC was born even before computers were created
>(Turing's simulations...)."
>
>Do you agree? Is computer chess the most researched area in artificial
>intelligence? How about in all of computer science?

By the same measure, the calculation of pi has chess beat by a landslide.

I suspect (for instance) that there are ten times as many TSP papers as chess
research.

My guess is that chess would not even break the top 100, unless you restrict the
research to two player zero sum games.



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