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Chess Computers

A critical descriptive analysis of the currently available commercial chess computers

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During the past few years, computer professionals and laypeople alike have often asked me: “How well do chess computers play? Can you beat them?”

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Kopec, D. (1988). Chess Computers. In: Weiss, E.A. (eds) A Computer Science Reader. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8726-6_17

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