Poole versus HAL 9000 is a fictional chess game in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Astronaut Dr. Frank Poole is seen playing a recreational game of chess with the HAL 9000 supercomputer. The following annotated chess game has been taken verbatim...
The following excerpt has been taken verbatim from Wikipedia. I've retained all hyperlinks from the original Wikipedia article; however, I have also hyperlinked each individual game move (e.g. 1.e4 c6) to the position-by-position computer analys...
Links to computer analysis for each position: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Bg4 4.dxe5 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 dxe5 6.Bc4 Nf6 7.Qb3 Qe7 8.Nc3 c6 9.Bg5 b5 10.Nxb5 cxb5 11.Bxb5 Nbd7 12.0-0-0 Rd8 13.Rxd7 Rxd7 14.Rd1 Qe6 15.Bxd7 Nxd7 16.Qb8 Nxb8 17.Rd8
A BUST TO THE KING'S GAMBIT by U.S. Champion Bobby Fischer International Grandmaster The King's Gambit has lost popularity, but not sympathy. Analysts treat it with kid gloves and seem reluctant to demonstrate an outright refuatation. "Th...
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 1. 3.Bc4 f5 1. 4.d3 1. 4...Be7 2. 4...c6 1. 5.a4 2. 5.exf5 Bxf5 3. 5.Nc3 4. 5.0-0 3. 4...Nc6 1. 5.Nc3 2. 5.Ng5 Nh6 3. 5.0-0 1. 3.d4 f5 2. 4.Bc...
Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Ryder Gambit 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Qxf3 BDG, Ryder Gambit Avoided 1. 5...a6 2. 5...Bg4 6.Qxb7 Nbd7 7.Nb5 1. 7...e6 8.Nxc7 1. 8...Ke7 9.Qb4 Nc5 10.Qxc5 2. 8...
The starting point of the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit may be reached via various move orders. Below are three of the most common move orders: 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 1.d4 Nf6 2.f3 d5 3.e4 dxe4 4.Nc3 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.e4 dxe4 4.f3 A standard...
Variation trees and/or opening guides are useful tools for learning the ins and outs of chess openings. However useful variation trees may be, rote memorization is no substitute for wisdom and understanding of the conduct of the game, which one m...
Not all chess is equal, nor does time treat it as such. Correspondence chess and over-the-board (OTB) chess, while similar to each other in some respects, are dissimilar in many other respects. For example, the time limit is a more pressing consid...
The Open Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (OECO) wiki can be found at: http://oeco.hopto.org/mediawiki/index.php The OECO wiki is an online repository for computer (and human) chess analysis. Each OECO page represents a unique chess position along ...
From the dawn of the computer-chess era to the present, numerous advances on both the hardware side as well as on the software side have occurred. Indeed, technology in general has advanced at a rapid pace during the past 60 years. Where will Moo...
In a 2006 paper, Professor Yochai Benkler wrote “a novel system of production … has produced … the fastest supercomputer.” The novel system of production to which Benkler was referring is commons-based peer production and the supercomputer that B...
A relatively new mode of social production (i.e. commons-based peer production) is now being used to generate chess opening theory and to extend opening theory deep into the middle game. The result may be a more advanced form of advanced chess. ...
A worthwhile yet neglected contribution to chess literature is the Option Principle. The Option Principle was first enunciated by Weaver Adams. In his book, White to Play and Win (1939), Adams wrote: A third characteristic of a good move has t...
What does it mean when we speak of an "advantage" in the game of chess? Furthermore, what does it mean when a computer program evaluates a position at, for example, -0.38? The chess analyst must always look upon computer analysis with suspicion b...
The Final Theory of Chess Project aims to create a comprehensive online encyclopedia of chess openings using what Eric Raymond has called the "bazaar" development model. The bazaar development model differs from most traditional methods of managin...
