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
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