Chess Definition and 96 Threads

There is this person who "claimed" she didn't have much knowledge or skill on playing chess, that was surely a lie once she wiped the floor. I went easy on her just so she could get a feel of how it was played and to test out a new strategy, but nope, she won. I feel she's a liar and I would...

How many possible ways, in any direction, using any number of peices are there to checkmate someone in chess? I'd have a guess and say at least a couple of hundred thousand different ways

Several members and authorities of MHB have recently manifested interest about the 'world of the chess', so that I decided to open a thread about the World Chess Championship 2012. Yesterday the 'challenger' Boris Gelfand won the 7-th game againsy the world champion Visvanathan Anand, and I try...

I am by no means in the same stratosphere as Jameson and others on this forum when it comes to chess, but I do enjoy the game. Here's a fun little chess problem. White to play and mate in 2.

Saw this puzzle during an interview for programmers. Thought it was kind of clever. Can the domino tile the chessboard with no overlaps, no overhangs and no half tiles? If so, how can you prove it? If not, how can you prove it? No, this is not a trick question (or trick answer).

Are there any chess players, statisticians, or smart people who are familiar with the ELO ranking system? This concerns a game with at least over 100,000 players, so its not an obscure concern. Basically, I play an online video game that tries to apply an ELO ranking system to rank...

Hello! I just started learning Python and I was wondering is it possible for a total beginnner to make a fairly decent chess game which could beat someone with a rating of 1700 or so ( that's my rating , lol :D ) . Edit: I actually have a second idea of making some kind of chatbot, that would...

I don't get it. It looks like checkmate... By the way, I was playing Chess Titans, which comes with MS Windows 7.

I do not know if this is the correct forum to post this, but I have always wondered if the ability to play chess and mathematical ability go hand-in-hand with each other. A lot of people around me always tell me that. I like playing chess, I don't know if I'm good, but I like playing it. I also...

I have friends that say chess doesn't have any luck aspect to it. I see where they are coming from but I don't really agree with them. So for me it's not a matter of if chess is a game of luck it's more a question of how much? I personally would guess that chess is very much a game of luck so...

on some message board I found this text: "Such games as Go, Gomoku, Chess, Checkers, Othello have a character of schematic games - this means that exist formulated patterns of moves which make possible attainment of the victory in spite of even a lot lower IQ and analytical skills. It is...

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As a computer does not possesses any intelligence of it's own, how it plays games like chess?

Homework Statement If 8 rooks (castles) are randomly places on a chessboard, compute the probability that none of the rooks can capture any of the others. That is, compute the probability that no row or file contains more than one rook. The Attempt at a Solution I just started it by...

I'm a horrible player, but i very much like the game. I also like to read about some of the great chess players. Recently i read on Jose Raul Capablanca (1888-1942, Cuba). Word has it, he entered a tournament with all of the world top players at the time, while he was relatively unproven...

is there a method or algorithm that will always win in chess or can the algorithm/method always be fooled by the choices of the opponent? I know for a while there was a lot of noise over Big Blue, but I'm curious where the subject sits today. In all the games I play (i.e. amateur games)...

I'm just a very beginner when it comes to program and I have a question. I've read that some (old) chess engines are written in fortran so I know it's possible to create a chess engine using the fortran language. I wanted to know if someone has a link or a file providing the source of a chess...

How to Play 3d Chess with a Checkers Education Descartes’ legacy to all of us via philosophy can be labeled, I think, as rationalism (discovery of truth through pure reason), dichotomy (mind/body split), and certainty. Even though very few of us know anything about philosophy, almost...

I've recently taken an interest in chess, and I am looking for a Free-downloadable-not illegal-chess game has anyone heard of one, I am considering purchasing chess master but I just want to see what is out there. I have found millions of free ones, but they are all trials! If I get good enough...

Homework Statement In how many ways can eight identical rooks be placed on an ordinary 8x8 chessboard so that no two are in the same row or column? In how many ways, if each rook has a different color? Homework Equations I looked at the equation n choose k (nck), but I don't know if...

[SOLVED] Probability of Pairings in Chess Game Homework Statement The chess clubs of two schools consist of, respectively, 8 and 9 players. Four members from each club are randomly chosen to participate in a contest between the two schools. The chosen players from one team are then randomly...

1. Homework Statement Two world champion chess players play a sudden-death chess match where the first player to win a game wins the match. Each game is won by the first player with probability p and by the 2nd player with probability q and is a tie with probability (1-p-q). a) what is...

I know very little about chess programming, but i would like know more about it. I want to know every thing i could about it. how do chess programs flind, and plan a move algorithmically? What nice mathematics are there for the game of chess?

I am not a chess player. I wonder if it would be possible for someone to give me a valid board configuration where one colour (preferably white) has lost several pieces more than the other and is now in check.

Hello everyone. I have now finished my tetris program, and was planning on starting on a chess game in the console (it will be 2 player, playing at the same terminal - no winsock at the moment). Anyway, I have already set up the basics, however, I need a little help in programming the board. I...

Why does this thread have no posts in it?

A really terrific sciam http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=00010347-101C-14C1-8F9E83414B7F4945" on the study of expert knowledge, talent and their interaction to enable "magical" performance. Worth a lot of thought!

Is chess a futile game?

Chess Brain Teaser Clearly the two players here have been moving foolishly in the play of this game so far. But from this point on, with white to move next, each side is to play to win or avoid the loss. White mates in how many moves. You must know and follow the rules of chess to logically...

I'd like to share with you guys one of the most beautiful chess problems I've ever seen. See the attachment for the setup. It's white's turn. Mate in two.

I have to write a paper with a friend on displacement vectors of Chess peices but I don't really know where to start...can anyone help...I've done all the research

At most, 1. how many pieces may remain after a draw in chess? 2. how many "points" (pawn=1, bishop or knight=3, etc.) may remain after a draw?

Everyone will appreciate that a Chess board consists of 64 squares. The board is eight squares by eight squares. A puzzle may be made by cutting the board into pieces , along the boundary of the squares, and then attempting to reassemble the pieces back into the original 8 x 8 square shape...

Hey, Well, all of us know that with a bit of concetration at the X-O game you can never lose a game: either draw or to win if the other person mis-put his sign. But does anybody think that the same will be for the chess game..checkers..cards...etc in a very,very very complex way..but still...

There is a 64 square chessboard. A pawn is at some position on the checkboard. There are only two players on the checkboard: the pawn and king of opposing team. Imagine diagonals drawn from the pawn to the last rank on the chess board. Imagine a square formed by the ends of the diagonals. Prove...

Today my little cousin (age 10) showed me a line from his book (The Usborne Guide to Playing Chess, or something like that) that claimed that the total number of possible chess moves is greater than the total number of atoms in the known universe! I don't remember the exact wording, so I guess...

I remember hearing someone talk about playing chess through the mail. This was back in the olden days when mail meant the U.S. post office, not email. I wonder if anyone would be interested in playing a game of chess at this website, right here in this thread. First person who wants to play will...

Does anybody in this forum play chess? Or have an idea of how computer chess programs work? Even the very best of them, and lately they have gotten very, very good, work more or less the same way, and always have. In those algorithms, after the move generators and transposition tables and...

When is that supposed to go on?

Because he did get his name in by the monday deadline And he is(last I checked?) the #1 poster.. don't know if Zero caught him. Just my 2 cents.. I know it throws off the round robin scenario, but I'm sure we cna work it out

I've found a few good free networkable chess programs that we could use for a chess tournament. Are you in?

Does anybody here want to play chess by email or Private Message? I am not exactly a chess master, but I still like the game.

I know this is old, but some Bobby Fisher News: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/12/chun.htm

Hi all, I found this problem in a Martin Gardner book. You have a chess board of n x n squares. How many moves m(n) can a chess knight make on this board without crossing or touching its own path? m(0) = 0 m(1) = 0 m(2) = 0 m(3) = 2 m(4) = 5 m(5) = 10 m(6) = 17 m(7) = 24 m(8) = 35...

I love chess, and I was just wondering, does anyone here play chess?

Just an idle question I suppose...but we all know one can represent a chessboard as an 8 by 8 matrix. Let white be positive and black be negative. Pawns are 1's Rooks are 2's Knights are 3's Bishops are 4's Queens are 5's Kings are 6's empty spaces are 0's Is there any way to use...