The Distributed Chess Project

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THE DISTRIBUTED CHESS PROJECT

Creating Chess-Playing Artificial Neural Networks with Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms

Useful Links

For those of you, who want to learn more about the scientific background of this project, I provide some useful links that might be used as good starting points for further explorations. However, if you have not already done so, please download and install Chess Saver 2 before you go there. Here are the links:

Machine Learning in Games
Neural Networks | Neural Nets
The Genetic Algorithms Archive | Introduction to Genetic Algorithms | Matthew Wall's GAlib

Another great site with lots of information and ressources on genetic algorithms, neural nets, and much much more is provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratories:

LANL-Library (Handbook of Evolutionary Computation | Handbook of Neural Computation)

In order to avoid boredom with the screen saver and Bobby Fischer's games, I give you a link to a website where you will find more chess games in PGN-format than you can ever hope to watch during a single life:

Download PGN Files

You can display your own games, of course. The files must comply to the PGN-specification which can be found here:

Portable Game Notation

Here are some links to some of my favorite chess sites:

The Week in Chess | Kasparov Chess | ChessBase | NetChessNews

Here is another fascinating chess related distributed computing project:

ChessBrain

And last but not least, here is the rest of the competition:

Distributed Computing Projects (1) | Distributed Computing Projects (2) | Distributed Computing Projects (3)