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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2011
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
