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Chess is an activity in which we deploy almost all our available cognitive resources; therefore, it makes an ideal laboratory for investigation into the workings of the mind. Indeed, research into artificial intelligence (AI) has used chess as a model for intelligent behavior since the 1950s. In Chess Metaphors, Diego Rasskin-Gutman explores fundamental questions about memory, thought, emotion, consciousness, and other cognitive processes through the game of chess, using the moves of thirty-two pieces over sixty-four squares to map the structural and functional organization of the brain. Rasskin-Gutman focuses on the cognitive task of problem solving, exploring it from the perspectives of both biology and AI. Examining AI researchers efforts to program a computer that could beat a flesh-and-blood grandmaster (and win a world chess championship), he finds that the results fall short when compared to the truly creative nature of the human mind.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Electronics & communications engineering Electronics engineering

• Full title: Chess Metaphors
• Author: Diego Rasskin-Gutman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9780262517492
• ISBN: 0262517493
• ID: 04458474
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 314 g
• Dimensions: 221 × 149 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. February 2012

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