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Kende György
Studying chess and its information technology background to find analogies and application possibilities regarding military strategy

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Intézmény: Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem
katonai műszaki tudományok
Katonai Műszaki Doktori Iskola

témavezető: Kende György
helyszín (magyar oldal): Katonai Műszaki Doktori Iskola
helyszín rövidítés: DSME


A kutatási téma leírása:

Justification of the research topic:
(Precedents, actuality, etc.)
There is nothing new regarding correlation between chess and strategy, chess and skills development, chess and personality development. Newness and actuality of the topic first of all is justified by the information technology (IT) revolution in the last decades.
Recent chess programs have a higher rating then the present chess world champion has. Consequently, if IT can give the possibility of such an excellent artificial intelligence (AI) in such a very complex game as chess, it is worthwhile to identify military areas where improved IT and AI support may significantly increase effectivity of strategic thinking, leadership, command and control, etc.
In 2004 Swedish and Australian researchers achieved new results in correlation between chess and war using new IT and mathematical methods. Nowadays chess has an excellent IT background which effectively supports chess training, chess skills measuring, long term memory development. Chess can serve as a test bed for theories of cognitive science. It is proved that chess and its excellent IT background helps to create methods of personality and skills development. An other goal is to explore analogies between IT support of chess and conducting war, chess and war gaming, chess and computer aided exercises.

Some ideas are formulated in these publication:

• Benjamin Franklin: The Morals of Chess. http://www.angelfire.com/games5/chessodyssey/benfranklin.htm

• Kuylenstierna, Jan (Department of War Studies, Swedish National Defence College): Chess as a research tool for the study of military command and control. Presentation at the “New Challenges in the Field of Military Sciences 2006. IV International Conference” plenary session, Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University, November 7. 2006. Budapest, Hungary. http://www.zmne.hu/hadmernok/kulonszamok/newchallenges/kuylenstierna.html

• Kasparov, Garry: How Life Imitates Chess. Random House UK Ltd. 288 p. ISBN-13: 978-0434015405

• Ross, Philip E.: The Expert Mind. Scientific American, August 2006, 46-53.p. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=00010347-101C-14C1-8F9E83414B7F4945



Objectives:
Analogies between concepts of chess strategy and military strategy (synergy, anticipation, balance, timing and tempo, centres of gravity, direct vs. indirect approach, decisive points, etc.). Chess and war-gaming, chess tactics and military tactics. Analysis of chess IT background in order to use in military. Chess and game theory. Chess and military – correlations and differences. Possibility of chess IT for positioning of military equipment on the battlefield. Research of use of chess in military organizations and education facilities (academies, colleges, universities). Teaching chess very probably gives a better understanding of military concepts.
The main objectives:
(1) New findings which make possible to work out new methods in military command and control, in skills and personality development.
(2) Search and analysis of related Hungarian and foreign results (for example PhD thesises, publications, books), synthesis and summary of main results and directions.
(3) Application of findings in military training and education.


Research methods
According to research objectives adequate research methods must be chosen which naturally may vary regarding the desired goals. Besides classical library methods Internet seems to be a good possibility (chess homepages, chess news and other chess related publications). Other method may be studying chess programs, their algorithm and analytical ability to use them for military purposes. Finding and analyzing chess related PhD thesisis, chess educational conferences and other chess educational papers. Search for international cooperation. Search on the Internet of adequate chess related homepages (e.g. fide.com, chessbase.com, professorchess.com, etc.) in order to find results achieved by other researchers. Analysis and evaluation of homepages in aspects of military education, training, skills development and strategic thinking. Exploration of effective methods of using search engines to find relevant information.

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