The New Chess Computer Book
Pergamon Chess Series
Published on 17. May 2014
328 pages
978-1-4831-4032-2 (ISBN)
Description
The New Chess Computer Book is a revised edition of The Chess Computer Book that contains more than 50 percent new material about chess-playing microcomputers. Since the first edition of the book was written there have been large numbers of machines launched, some of which the author has been able to test over a long period. Inevitably there are new chess-playing, microcomputers machines, and updated modules for older ones, coming out all the time, with launch dates for machines in different countries often being different, due to commercial considerations. However, an attempt has been made to discuss in detail every top-of-the-range machine available on the British market. The book begins with a brief survey of the origins of chess computing and the development of chess-playing machines. This is followed by separate chapters on topics such as the types of machines that play chess; modular chess computers; computer hardware and software; and developments in chess microcomputers in the latter half of 1984.
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T. D. Harding
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Content
A Note on Chess Notation1 2001 and all that The Computer is Born and Learns to Play Chess2 Hullo, Mr. Chips The Micro Arrives and Chess Computers go on Sale3 Make Mine Modular Computer Chess Becomes Big Money as Several Companies in Competition Bring about a Rapid Improvement in the Product with Sensory Boards and Upgradeable 'Modules'4 On the Origin of Species and their Differentiation Description and Assessment of Most of the Popular Models5 The State of the Art A Series of Tournaments between the Stronger Machines to Discover Which are Best. Developments on the Horizon6 But can They Beat People? How the Chess Computers Fare in Competition against Human Club and Social Players7 It Crawled out of the Video Screen Chess Programs for the Popular Home Computers8 Chess Computers are Almost Human What Goes on Inside Them. Elementary Programming9 Is That 'Book'? How Computers Play Openings. How They Can Help You Improve Your Openings10 Why Did it Make That Silly Move? Computer Limitations in the Endgame and How You Can Still Get Good Endgame Practice with a Computer11 'It's You against the Computer' The Programs' Greatest Strength - The Middle Game. Testing Yourself against the Computer in a Variety of Middle Game Situations and Learn How Play against a Computer Will Develop Your Full Chess Potential12 'Are You Another Computer?' How a Computer Can Help You with Postal Chess and Adjournment Analysis13 'Mighty Micros March Ever Onward' The Latest DevelopmentsFurther ReadingIndex of Computers
