tony@alberta.UUCP (Tony Marsland) (05/14/86)
The current (March 1986) issue of the ICCA Journal has been received. Aside from the following three technical articles, there are reports on Ken Thompson's 5-piece endgame studies, showing that several endgames are won in more than 50 moves, plus the usual reviews and short articles. There is also an extensive study of most commercially available chess machines by a Swedish group. This list is the most accurate and scientific estimate of the relative playing strength of those programs. The major articles are "A review of game-tree pruning" by T.A. Marsland "An overview of machine learning in computer chess" by S.S. Skiena "A data base on data bases" by H.J. van den Herik and I.S. Herschberg Information on the availability of this journal has been posted before.