Mathematics of Chess

By Tom Brown

“Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.”

–Tarrasch

 

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∫i First moves

By Tom Brown on Fri, 15 Dec 2017

The perfect game in Chess would be that of the best first move answered by the best move, replied again by best and then the best once more. The age...
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∫ii Legal games

By Tom Brown on Thu, 21 Dec 2017

How many legal games of Chess are there? Certainly there is a set consisting of all legal games and a possible position is one that can be reached...
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∫iv A perfect game of Chess

By Tom Brown on Fri, 07 Sep 2018

In principle finding a perfect chess game seems to be a reasonably straightforward formulated problem in discrete mathematics. To find a method and...
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∫∫∫ Endings in Chess

By Tom Brown on Sat, 16 Jun 2018

Human vs. Computer A computer plays chess much like a human, each legal move and all replies are considered. The incredible calculation abilities of...
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∫iii Possible positions

By Tom Brown on Thu, 14 Jun 2018

The ideas and arguments described now are not unique to Chess they can be applied to many board games for instance Checkers, and probably even more...
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