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

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 06:14:32 10/21/03

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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?

Personally, I've no answer to this, only : when you are involved in a field you
tend to know more in this field and less in others and may be become blind about
others ;)

Some links to remember other thinks than computer chess:

The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository (link given on CCC I think) :
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/

Computer in "4 in a row" : http://www.fierz.ch/4inarow.htm
Munstrum solved the "4 in a row" in less than 1 hour on a home computer :
http://www.lbremer.de/mustrum_e.html

Link to solved games : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_board_games
Go is solved for a 5x5 board : http://senseis.xmp.net/?5x5Board
I wonder what will be solved first : Go 13x13 or chess !? (don't speak about Go
19x19)
PAC-Bayesian Pattern Classification with Kernels: Theory, Algorithms, and an
Application to the Game of Go :
http://edocs.tu-berlin.de/diss/2002/graepel_thore.pdf
Computer Go seems to be bigger than Computer Chess :
http://www.markus-enzenberger.de/compgo_biblio/compgo_biblio.html

A too good freeware car simulation : http://www.racer.nl
This kind of simulator use some complex algo's :  Development of an Intermediate
DOF Vehicle Dynamics Model for Optimal Design
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/etd/public/etd-373202299842941/etd.pdf

To know where computer chess is : be openminded ! ;)



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