2012 World chess championship

[Vortex]

For those who are interested in chess :

Boris Gelfand of Israel won the Final FIDE Candidates Match, defeating GM Alexander Grischuk of Russia 3.5 to 2.5 in Kazan, Russia, on Wednesday. With the victory, he earned the right to challenge the world champion Vishy Anand of India for the world title next year.

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7250

[mineiro]

Nice, now waiting to see who will win. I put my coins in a favor of Anand, this guy is so much strong, and don't suffer of time pressure.
I remember one comment of a grandmaster that says: "while I'm playing with Anand, he put their eyes to down or up, and not in the board". Well, this guy have a chess board and all movements inside their mind, don't need look to the board. Insane.
But, from words of Kasparov, who wins FIDE is probably the next world champion.

The link below is the best chess game that I have seen in my life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIsqhf6Nqr8

[oex]

I thought we automated this already?

[mineiro]

I don't have sure Sr oex, but what I know is that chess game cannot have a "magical formula" that who start opening the game every time win.
Computer have more power processing than us, but their fail when artificial intelligence comes in scene. About I.A, some people say that is the answer to a better compression algorithm.
Kasparov when playing with deep blue feel this fault, and instead of opening a chess game following the book, he opened in a not default way and have win that game.

[dedndave]

Kasparov when playing with deep blue feel this fault, and instead of opening a chess
game following the book, he opened in a not default way and have win that game.

and, because Kasparov played it, it became a standard "book opening"   :P
back when i played chess seriously, i read the "Chess Openings: Theory and Practice" book like a text book
it's sometimes refered to as "The Chess Bible"
back in the 80's, the paper-back version was almost 2 inches thick
Kasparov's moves are all over the place in that book



EDIT
i just looked that book up on amazon to see how much they are going for
new price is $703 (plus $4 S&H)
something has to be wrong, there - lol
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0671205536/sr=/qid=/ref=olp_tab_new?ie=UTF8&coliid=&me=&qid=&sr=&seller=&colid=&condition=new

[mineiro]

wow Sr dedndave, much expensive that book.
About deep blue, this program have 700.000 games in their database, and can process 200 milions of positions per second.

Based in Kasparov theory, I have tried do the same thing in compression, like he said that chess imitates the life. The hexa below:
01 32 64 9b ad ce f1 f4 91 cb a2 9e 3e 07 c2 91...
At first look, that numbers don't have correlation or something repeated (digraph,trigraph,long mach,...), so rle,lz??,,.. don't work.
In the true, rle and lz?? can deal easy with this if their look to nibble parity. All bytes number are parity even and odd. A simply internal table to convert thats nibbles to 3 bits and it's done.

[dedndave]

yah - my copy has the pages falling out in the Ruy Lopez and Sicilian Defense sections - lol
i think i'll hang on to it - can't afford to replace it   :P

there are a number of excellent sites and forums dedicated to chess programming
all you have to do is google   :U