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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…
cs.AI2021★ 41 cited
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…
cs.AI2021★ 1 cited
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…