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==Chess in the Curriculum==
 
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*An [[ECE]] senior design project: [[LED Chess Board ECE Senior Design|designing an LED chess Board]].
 
*Automatic chess playing is an application of "artificial Intelligence" and "Pattern Recognition".  
 
*Automatic chess playing is an application of "artificial Intelligence" and "Pattern Recognition".  
 
**[[What_is_Pattern_Recognition_OldKiwi|See the introductory lecture of ECE662: "Pattern Recognition and decision making processes"]] to learn what is pattern recognition.  
 
**[[What_is_Pattern_Recognition_OldKiwi|See the introductory lecture of ECE662: "Pattern Recognition and decision making processes"]] to learn what is pattern recognition.  

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Chess

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Who plays chess? Why do you play chess?

  • Mathematician Paul Erdos, who was a Research Associate in Purdue's mathematics department from 1943 to 1945, was a very skillful chess player [1].
  • Purdue student Bernard Parham is a chess master and the inventor of the Parham Attack.
  • Dan Fleetwood [2], (Ph. D., Solid State Physics, M. S., Experimental Physics, B. S., Physics and Applied Math, all from Purdue University), was the 8th American to earn the International Correspondence Chess GrandMaster title, played Board 1 for the United States Correspondence Chess Olympics team in the 15th Olympiad Final (http://www.iccf-webchess.com/), and finished 8th in the 18th International Correspondence Chess Championship.
  • Do you play chess? Tell us why!

Notable Chess Matches

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Chess Related Pages

Chess in the Curriculum

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Chess on Rhea

  • We are thinking of adding chess playing software to Rhea. One possibility is to use the open source software "free internet chess server "[3]. Any opinions??? -pm

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