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The Future of Post-Human Chess : a Preface to a New Theory of Tactics and Strategy.

This book provides an alternative (better) way to understand the future of chess, especially in the context of strategy and tactics-while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with ea...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge International Science Pub. 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover13;
  • The Future of Post-Human Chess. A Preface to a New Theoryof Tactics and Strategy
  • CONTENTS
  • Part One: Introduction
  • Part Two: Strategy
  • Part Three: Tactics
  • Part Four: Conclusion
  • TABLES
  • FOREWORD
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • PART ONE 8226; Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 8212; THE FUN OF CHESS
  • A Didactic Tale of Two Chess Sensibilities
  • Chess and Its Variants
  • The Value of Each Chess Piece
  • The Movement of Each Chess Piece
  • The Algebraic Chess Notation for Recordng Moves
  • Different Variants of Chess in the World
  • Chess, and the Relationshipbetween Strategy and Tactics
  • Strategy
  • Tactics
  • The Theoretical Debate
  • The Mental Argument
  • The Natural Argument
  • The Social Argument
  • The Cultural Argument
  • The Mediative-Variative Argument
  • The Mediative-Variative Theory of Chess
  • Theory and Meta-Theory
  • A Unified Theory of Everything
  • The Logic of Existential Dialectics
  • The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics)
  • The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic)
  • The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics)
  • The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics)
  • Sophisticated Methodological Holism
  • Chapter Outline
  • Some Clarifications
  • In Conversation with My Previous Books
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis
  • Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations
  • The Use of Neologisms
  • PART TWO 8226; Strategy
  • CHAPTER 2. STRATEGY AND ITS INADEQUACY
  • The Foresight of Strategy
  • Strategy and the Mind
  • Chess Expertise, and Psychological Explanations
  • Chess Games, and the Development of Mental Skills
  • Strategy and Nature
  • Chess Origin, and Its Relationship with Cosmology
  • Strategy and Society
  • Computer Chess, and the Impact of Technology
  • Chess Games, and the Influence of Social Structure
  • Strategy and Culture
  • Chess and Morality
  • Chess Development, and Its Cultural Variants
  • The Uncertainty of Strategy
  • PART THREE 8226; Tactics
  • CHAPTER 3. TACTICS AND ITS ARROWNESS
  • The Usefulness of Tactics
  • Tactics and the Mind
  • The Game-Tree Complexity of Chess, and the Mind
  • Chess Blindness, and the Appeal to Reason
  • Tactics and Nature
  • Chess, Symmetry, and Mathematics
  • Chess, Analogy, and Physics
  • Tactics and Society
  • Chess Tactics, and the Use of Computers and Online Chess
  • Tactics and Culture
  • Tactical Exercises, and the Question of Beauty
  • Chess Handicap, and the Tradition of Odds-Giving
  • The Limitation of Tactics
  • PART FOUR 8226; Conclusion
  • CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION 8212; THE FUTURE OF CHESS
  • Beyond the Science of Chess and the Art of Chess
  • Other Relevant Principles
  • 1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-RelativenessPrinciple
  • 2nd Thesis: The Predictability-UnpredictabilityPrinciple
  • 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-InexplicabilityPrinciple
  • 4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle
  • 5th Thesis: The Simpleness-ComplicatednessPrinciple
  • 6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle
  • 7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle
  • 8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle
  • 9th Thesis: The Convention-3ovelty Principle
  • 10th Thesis: The Evolution-TransformationP.