By Dan Heisman. For post-beginners. The content of this book is extracted from Heisman's "Novice Nook" columns originally published on (the now apparently defunct) ChessCafe.com. In addition to chapters on opening play, tactics, endgame, positional chess and strategy, the book provides advice...
as shown in the figure below. The state is composed of the current position of the black stones as a binary map (1 where there is a black stone, 0 otherwise) as well as the past 7 board states. It is concatenated with the same input for the white stones. This is ...
A descriptive analysis of the German database shows that there is no restriction of the range of rating score values. The database collects data for all players, starting from beginners and extending all the way to the best players in the world (see Table2and the Age Effects subsection below...