“Regularly Ig Nobel awards ceremony for the curious scientific studies were originally considered an insult, today they mostly proudly awards (recently including our domestic scientists). Analysis of mortality individual chess pieces and related research by this award could aspire too.” —from the article “Kdo přežije?” in the January 12, 2015 issue of Hospodářské Noviny, [machine-translated […]
Tag: Chess
Beauty slays chessmen [study]
When chess players go head to head, the outside of one of the heads can influence the inside of the other head, suggests this study: “Beauty queens and battling knights: Risk taking and attractiveness in chess,” Anna Dreber [pictured here], Christer Gerdes, Patrik Gränsmark, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 90, June 2013, pp. […]
Computer beats a top human in Japanese chess
Investigator Shoichi Fukayama alerts us to news in the ongoing battle between humans and computers. Reports from Japan say that for the first time a computer has defeated a top-rank shogi player. Shogi is a game related to chess, and believed by many players to be of greater difficulty. A network of 169 computers bested […]
Re-envisioning the Chess-bot
Robotic Chess Players are not new. But robots which play Chess via a touch-screen are. For this reason, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology has just received a US patent for their ‘Board Game System Utilizing a Robot Arm’. The emphasis on the ‘arm’ part is perhaps […]