Posts Tagged ‘advanced chess’

Cyborg Chess Kata

May 18, 2010

This Kata creates a tool used for Cyborg Chess that displays the number of pieces attacking each square.

Background

Cyborg chess is a special kind of league where each “player” is actually a human-computer team. Gary Kasparov is a proponent of Cyborg chess, saying it will lead to higher quality play and “blunder free” games. Most Cyborg chess today is played by a human sitting in front of a chess engine. The human gets proposals from the engine and types in potential moves to be evaluated. But I think there’s more potential. The computer can present information to the human in interesting ways which help the human better visualize the position of the board.
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