print email comment close How Chess Computers Work URL: http://www.howstuffworks.com/chess.htm Description: This site illustrates how a computer program plays chess and diagrams how it calculates all possible moves using a formula called the minimax algorithm and a technique called alpha beta pruning. Information is also available on "Man vs. Machine" contests, IBM's Deep Blue, Deep Junior, international chess champion Garry Kasparov, and more. Author: Brain, Marshall Publisher: Howstuffworks, Inc. Library of Congress Subject Headings: Chess Computer chess LII Database Information: Record 7089 created by Julianna Hamann on 01/30/2003 Last modification on 02/03/2003 Published: 01/30/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/7089