Economics and chess session at the SEA

Session 16M, Economics and Chess

Papers:

“Thinking Outside the Game Tree: Game Preparation at Chess World Championship”

Doru Cojoc, Columbia University

“Do Rational Agents Make Rational Decisions? Evidence from Chess Data”

Alexander Matros, University of South Carolina

Irina Murtazashvili, Drexel University

“Human and Computer Preference Divergences at Chess”

Kenneth Regan, University at Buffalo

Tamal Tanu Biswas, University at Buffalo

Jason Zhou, SUNYIT

The link to the program is here.  Here is Cojoc’s earlier paper on mixed strategies in chess.

Carlsen played an imperfect match, by the way, especially in the second half, but won on the grounds of age and stamina.  For the next cycle, I see Grischuk as the most likely challenger, as Aronian tends to choke at key moments and Caruana does not yet have a good enough positional understanding of the middle game and end game.  Carlsen will hold the title still for some while to come.

The pointer is from Daniel Klein, here is his earlier paper on why don’t government officials seem like villains (pdf).