Computers, Chess, and Cognition

I. Man and Machine.- 1. A Short History of Computer Chess.- 2. Advances in Man-Machine Play.- 3. 1989 World Computer Chess Championship.- 4. How Will Chess Programs Beat Kasparov?.- II. Chess Programs.- 5. Deep Thought.- 6. Hitech.- 7. Cray Blitz.- III. Computer Chess Methods.- 8. Tree Searching Algorithms.- 9. Experiments with the Null-Move Heuristic.- 10. Problematic Positions and Speculative Play.- 11. Verifying and Codifying Strategies in a Chess Endgame.- 12. Learning in Bebe.- 13. The Bratko-Kopec Test Revisited.- IV. Computer Chess and AI.- 14. Chess as the Drosophila of AI.- 15. Brute Force in Chess and Science.- 16. Perspectives on Falling from Grace.- V. A New Drosophila for AI?.- 17. The Design and Evolution of Go Explorer.- 18. Knowledge Representation and its Refinement in Go Programs.