Are there neurophysiological differences behind the play of different chess modalities?: An international grandmaster case study.

JP Fuentes-García, JL Leon-Llamas, N Gusi… - Physiology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The study of mental load is an emerging research topic in the field of sport sciences. In the
sport of chess, there is a need to understand the mental demands of the sport of chess in …

Using heuristic-search based engines for estimating human skill at chess

M Guid, I Bratko - ICGA journal, 2011 - content.iospress.com
Establishing heuristic-search based chess programs as appropriate tools for estimating
human skill levels at chess may seem impossible due to the following issues: the programs' …

On the limits of engine analysis for cheating detection in chess

DJ Barnes, J Hernandez-Castro - Computers & Security, 2015 - Elsevier
The integrity of online games has important economic consequences for both the gaming
industry and players of all levels, from professionals to amateurs. Where there is a high …

Measuring level-k reasoning, satisficing, and human error in game-play data

T Biswas, K Regan - 2015 IEEE 14th International Conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inferences about structured patterns in human decision making have been drawn from
medium-scale simulated competitions with human subjects. The concepts analyzed in these …

[PDF][PDF] Human and computer preferences at chess

KW Regan, T Biswas, J Zhou - Workshops at the Twenty-Eighth AAAI …, 2014 - cdn.aaai.org
Distributional analysis of large data-sets of chess games played by humans and those
played by computers shows the following differences in preferences and performance:(1) …

Performance and prediction: Bayesian modelling of fallible choice in chess

G Haworth, K Regan, G Di Fatta - … , ACG 2009, Pamplona Spain, May 11 …, 2010 - Springer
Evaluating agents in decision-making applications requires assessing their skill and
predicting their behaviour. Both are well developed in Poker-like situations, but less so in …

Large-scale analysis of chess games with chess engines: A preliminary report

M Acher, F Esnault - arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.04186, 2016 - arxiv.org
The strength of chess engines together with the availability of numerous chess games have
attracted the attention of chess players, data scientists, and researchers during the last …

Understanding distributions of chess performances

KW Regan, B Macieja, GMC Haworth - Advances in computer games, 2011 - Springer
This paper studies the population of chess players and the distribution of their performances
measured by Elo ratings and by computer analysis of moves. Evidence that ratings have …

Determining the strength of chess players based on actual play

DR Ferreira - ICGA journal, 2012 - content.iospress.com
The increasing strength of chess engines and their fine-tuned ability to evaluate positions
provide the opportunity to use computer analysis for assessing the strength of players on a …

Who is the Master?

JM Alliot - ICGA Journal, 2017 - content.iospress.com
There has been debates for years on how to rate chess players living and playing at different
periods (see Keene and Divinsky (1989)). Some attempts were made to rank them not on …