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].
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Notable Chess Matches

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Chess Related Pages

• West Lafayette Scholastic Chess Club

Chess in the Curriculum

• Automatic chess playing is an application of "artificial Intelligence" and "Pattern Recognition".
  • See the introductory lecture of ECE662: "Pattern Recognition and decision making processes" to learn what is pattern recognition.
  • If you want to learn more about pattern recognition, consider taking this Maymester course in Turkey next Spring.

Chess at School

• Chess and School violence
  • Jamaican schools are introducing chess in schools to reduce violence.
  • Philadelphia area schools answer to violence: use chess to teach children how to win and lose.
• Chess for K-12 Children
  • In the West Lafayette Area, children as young as 4 years old are encouraged to play chess at the West Lafayette Scholastic Chess Club.

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 "[2]. Any opinions??? -pm

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