TOPIC OUTLINE
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Topic
leader: Prof. Dr.
Kende, György; colonel ret. Doctor of
The Hungarian Academy of Science e-mail:
kende.gyorgy@zmne.hu |
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Office |
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Zrínyi
Miklós National Defence University (ZMNDU) |
Address:
Hungária krt. 9-11. Budapest, Hungary
1101 |
Assignment:
professor |
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Branch of Science |
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Military
Technology |
Leader:
Prof. Dr. Turcsányi, Károly |
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THE TOPIC TO RESEARCH: Studying chess and its information technology background to find analogies
and application possibilities regarding battlefield operations, armaments
development, decision making, military training and education |
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Justification of the research topic (Preliminaries, 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.
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
as a test bed for theories of cognitive science. Chess and the excellent IT
background of chess helps to create methods of personality and skills
development. The other goal is to
explore analogies between IT supports of chess and conducting war, chess and
war gaming, chess and computer aided exercises. The main
ideas I have formulated in these
publications:
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Research Objectives: Analogies between chess and military
strategy, chess and war-gaming, chess 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 foreign military organizations
and education facilities (academies, colleges, universities). 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 thesis, publications, books),
synthesis and summarizing of main results and directions; (3) Application of findings in
military training and education. |
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Methodology 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 thesis, 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
(e.g. Google, Yahoo, etc.) to find relevant information. |
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Expected new scientific results Proper
formulation of research objectives and use of appropriate research methods
must guarantee finding of new scientific results in conformity with research
objectives. Results have to answer many questions, among which at the moment
the most important ones are: (1)
Analysis of super grandmaster level chess program (e.g. Fritz 10, Hydra,
etc.) in order to find possibilities of their adaptation in battlefield
activities and in training of military commanders (2)
Exploring coherencies and differences between chess and battlefield
activities, chess and positioning of military equipment, chess and C4I, chess and
informational uncertainty (3) Usage of chess in skills and personality
development (4)
Usage of chess in military and civilian BSc and MSc education (5)
Drafting a chess-related curriculum at military academies and universities. Development
of main lines ands points of chess related subjects, designing content of
lecture notes, course books, textbooks and multimedia curriculum. |
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Budapest, April 2007
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Prof. Dr. György Kende