41 citations · 45 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for
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Kramnik vs Nakamura: A Chess Scandal
Shiva Maharaj, Nick Polson, Vadim Sokolov
We provide a statistical analysis of the recent controversy between Vladimir Kramnik (ex chess world champion) and Hikaru Nakamura. Hikaru Nakamura is a chess prodigy and a five-ti…
The Value of Chess Squares
Aditya Gupta, Shiva Maharaj, Nicholas Polson +1
We propose a neural network-based approach to calculate the value of a chess square-piece combination. Our model takes a triplet (Color, Piece, Square) as an input and calculates a…
On the Probability of Magnus Carlsen reaching 2900
Sohan Bendre, Shiva Maharaj, Nick Polson +1
How likely is it that Magnus Carlsen will achieve an Elo rating of ? This has been a goal of Magnus and is of great current interest to the chess community. Our paper uses pr…
Gambits: Theory and Evidence
Shiva Maharaj, Nicholas Polson, Christian Turk
Gambits are central to human decision-making. Our goal is to provide a theory of Gambits. A Gambit is a combination of psychological and technical factors designed to disrupt predi…
Chess AI: Competing Paradigms for Machine Intelligence
Shiva Maharaj, Nick Polson, Alex Turk
Endgame studies have long served as a tool for testing human creativity and intelligence. We find that they can serve as a tool for testing machine ability as well. Two of the lead…
Karpov's Queen Sacrifices and AI
Shiva Maharaj, Nick Polson
Anatoly Karpov's Queen sacrifices are analyzed. Stockfish 14 NNUE -- an AI chess engine -- evaluates how efficient Karpov's sacrifices are. For comparative purposes, we provide a d…