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Record W4256410749 · doi:10.24124/2008/bpgub1368

Chess software and its impact on chess players

2008· dissertation· en· W4256410749 on OpenAlexaff
Khaldoon Dhou

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicEducational Games and Gamification
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Northern British Columbia
FundersUtah Agricultural Experiment Station
KeywordsPaceCompetitor analysisComputer chessProcess (computing)Computer scienceSoftwareOrder (exchange)Perspective (graphical)Human–computer interactionSisterArtificial intelligenceManagementAdvertisingSociology

Abstract

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Computer-aided chess is an important teaching method, as it allows a student to play under every condition possible, and regulates the speed of his/her development at an incremental pace, measured against actual players in the rated chess community.It is also relatively inexpensive, and pervasive, and allows players to match themselves against competitors from across the world.The learning process extends beyond games, as interactive software has shown; it teaches several skills, such as opening, strategy, tactics, and chess-problem solving.Furthermore, current applications allow chess players to establish rankings via online chess tournaments, meet international grandmasters, and have access to training tools based on strategies from chess masters.Using 250 chess software packages, this research classifies them into distinct categories based mainly on the Gobet and Jansen's organization of the chess knowledge [4].This is followed by extensive discussion that analyzes these training tools, in order to identify the best training techniques available building on a research on human computer interaction, cognjtive psychology, and chess theory.I will also always be grateful to my parents.Their unyielding support, academic guidance, and motivation have helped to shape both a positive opinion of myself, but also of my future and development.Due their influence, I am able to improve everyday, doing tomorrow what I thought impossible today.Finally, many thanks for my brother Basheer and my sister Salam, for always being pushy in the best possible way.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.075

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0220.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.382
Teacher spread0.351 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2008
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