Sunday, December 10, 2006

Visualizing Thoughts Of A Chess Program

22nd November 2006 morning, I got the web link of a chess program that shows its thaughts while deciding on moves. It gives a simulation with graphics of the possible moves the computer is currently considering. Looks beautiful though the interface/ specially the knight, bishop, queen are not easily recognizable. Also it didn't let me choose what I want to promote my pawn to - Queen, Rook, Bishop or Night and defaulted the promotion to Queen while for my position, promoting it to a Rook was sufficient. Still I would say this is a wonderful project!

Chess Machine Thinking

I was easily able to defeat it playing a game with white.

White - Ashik Uzzaman vs Black- Chess Machine 4

1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.d5 Nb4 5.a3 Bg4 6.f3 exf3 7.gxf3 Na6 8.fxg4 e5 9.Nf3 Nc5 10.Be3 Qf6 11.Bb5+ Nd7 12.Ne4 Qe7 13.Bc5 Qd8 14.Bxd7+ Qxd7 15.Nxe5 Qd8 16.Qf3 Bxc5 17.Nxc5 f6 18.Rf1 Qe7 19.Ne6 c6 20.Nc4 Kf7 21.O-O-O f5 22.Qxf5+ Nf6 23.Ne5+ Kg8 24.d6 Qe8 25.d7 Qe7 26.d8Q+ Rxd8 27.Rxd8+ Qxd8 28.Nxd8 h6 29.g5 hxg5 30.Qxg5 Rh5 31.Qg3 Ne4 32.Qg6 Nf6 33.Rxf6 Rf5 34.Qf7+ Kh8 35.Rh6+ gxh6 36.Ng6# [1-0]

You may also view the game online here.

2 comments:

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