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Kevin Pacey
08-08-2022, 11:01 AM
While many consider that chess is a science, I've never heard of it being promoted as such, say to a government. Here's an old link about researchers in Sweden and Australia looking at the value of chess to [military] science, for the understanding of real battles, at least:

theguardian/2004/Chess: what is it good for - case for using it as [military] science:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/mar/04/2

P.S.: Maybe computer science is where one of the best scientific applications for chess is:

chessbase.com/post/computer-chess-longest-running-experiment-in-computing-science:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/computer-chess-longest-running-experiment-in-computing-science

Kevin Pacey
08-08-2022, 06:58 PM
Story with some mention of chess/AI re: Canada:
ualberta.ca/folio/2022/06/creating-canadas-high-tech-innovators-of-tomorrow.html

https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2022/06/creating-canadas-high-tech-innovators-of-tomorrow.html

chessbase.com/post/chess-and-scientific-research:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/chess-and-scientific-research

Here's CB doing some 'selling' of chess AS science:
chessbase.com/post/the-science-of-chess:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-science-of-che