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Friday, September 3, 2004

Chess computer's thought process

These breathtaking visualizations of the decision-tree explored by a chess-playing computer are great.

A view into the workings of a chess-playing program that must make millions of decisions in each game. In this piece we explore the notion that our lives consist of a vast sequence of choices.

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