or how far sliding pieces can move). While chess games might be a niche item, neural networks that can deduce complex evaluation functions have wide applicability in fields ranging from computer ...

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really ... and pegs represented pieces. There were mechanical arms to move the pegs.

(Kind of like a GPU instruction set. And a bit of ARM. But a lot slower.) And then from there we can program our new computer to play chess. So let's get started. (Some people may say I have an ...

Now, Barthelmey has taken things one step further by publishing a new paper in the journal Physical Review E that treats ...