- FRI Piškot: Janko - AI of a Progressive Chess Master
Announcements
Vito Janko, the receiver of the Faculty level Prešeren Award for 2016, will present the awarded programme for playing progessive chess. Join us at the next FRI Piškot Seminar on Thursday 12 January 2017 at 10:15 AM in lecture hall 22 at FRI!
Artificial Intelligence of a Progressive Chess Master
Abstract:
In Progressive chess, rather than just making one move per turn, players play progressively longer series of moves: white starts with one, then black makes two moves in a row, white makes three and so on. The combinatorial complexity generated by many sequential moves represents a difficult challenge for classic search algorithms. We devised a set of heuristics which combined with the A* search algorithm and Minimax algorithm lead to a successful progressive chess playing program. In real-world testing our implementation won both mini-matches against a human chess master.
The seminar will be held in English.