What is it about?

The game of chess involves patterns. In this article we develop a simple description language for chess positions as patterns. It seems useful to catalogue similar positions in a generic form, based on common elements, in order to simplify the search for chess positions.

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Why is it important?

The aim is to avoid a commonly-used brute force approach in chess searching. Further,the description language could explain why some typical maneuvers actually work in some patterns. This could also be a step forward to model and build chess programs, which perform in a way closer to what a human being does.

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Describing chess patterns could give a step forward to model and build chess programs, which perform in a way closer to what a human being does.

Manuel Lopez
UNAM - National University of Mexico

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This page is a summary of: A description language for chess, ICGA Journal, May 2020, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/icg-190141.
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