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This novel, experimental course provides an unique opportunity for
students to study the game of chess in conjunction with computer
science methods, e.g. game tree search.
Students will be expected to complete homeworks solving chess puzzles as well as programming exercises implementing various aspects of the game such as recognizing particular situations, search and strategies. A term project is also required and credit for class participation given. |
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| Lecture | Date | Slides | Notes | |
| 1 | August 20th | lecture1.pdf | 86 | Very large file (86MB...) to be truncated...
Chess Homework #1 out. Due beginning of next class. |
| 2 | August 27th | lecture2.pdf | 32 | Homework #2 out. Due on 10th, beginning of class. |
| Lecture | Date | Slides | Notes | |
| September 3rd Labor Day |
(No Lecture) | |||
| 3 | September 10th | lecture3.pdf (Updated 9/10) | 43 | Chess Homework #3 out. Due September 17th.
Programming: graphical display for positional set up and bitboards. Bit operations: pawns, kings and knights. Sliding pieces: rotated bitboards. Programming project start. Pieces for project: bmp.zip |
| 4 | September 17th | lecture4.pdf | 33 | Student report on programming task 1. Bitboards: recap. More on rotated bitboards: file vs. rank. No chess homework this week. Program your bitmaps!
Modified pieces for project (using a transparent background): pieces.zip (courtesy of Jason Maddux) |
| 5 | September 24th | lecture5.pdf | 23 | Finish talking about bitmaps: diagonal bitmaps. Chess game analysis and homework. |
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| 6 | October 1st | lecture6.pdf | 4 | Class presentations for bitboard implementations. Chess: going through games. |
| Extra | October 4th | Rotated bitboard session. Thursday October 4th. 7:30pm. | ||
| 7 | October 8th | lecture7.pdf | Remaining class presentations for Programming Task 2. Evaluation functions. | |
| 8 | October 15th | lecture8.pdf | 22 | Evaluation functions from a chess master's perspective. |
| 9 | October 22nd | lecture9.pdf | 15 | Class Presentation for Task 4. Evaluation Functions. Chess Homework #9.
Presentations: brewster.pdf / damgar.pdf / jahagirdar.pdf / kaplan-dunn.pdf / maddux.pdf / nation.pdf / odonnell.pdf / puzio.pdf / ramey.pdf / stevens.pdf / vanpatten.pdf / wadsworth.pdf / watson.pdf |
| 10 | October 29th | lecture10.pdf | 22 | Game Tree Search. Programming tasks 5 and 6. Chess Homework 10. |
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| 11 | November 5th | lecture11.pdf | 23 | Chesssbase lecture. Chess exhibition with Levon. |
| November 12th Veterans Day |
(No Lecture) Term Project Proposals: send email! | |||
| 12 | November 19th | lecture12.pdf | 8 | Class Presentations: Task 5. Chess Homework. |
| 13 | November 26th | lecture13.pdf | 4 | Class Presentations: Task 5 contd. |
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| 14 | December 3rd | Class Term Project Presentations | Term Project due at beginning of class. |