Wiskundige schaak, Mathematical chess, Échecs mathématiques

A game

In collaboration with Christoph Müßig and Érika Roldán-Roa, we developed a game on queen and rook domination on polyominoes. Het is accessible on this website https://www.erikaroldan.net/queensrooksdomination. It is companion to some research we did, please do let us know if you find a winning strategy in polynomial time, as those two problems are NP-complete, this can be the start of a fruitful collaboration!

Presentation

Below you can find some of my slides from talks on chess in French and Dutch

  • 09 November 2022, Imaginary, Gent. Wiskunde en schaak: koninginnen op rare schaakborden. Beamer is hier.
  • 28 September 2022, Club mathématique de l'Université de Montréal, UdeM, Montréal. La domination, une histoire d'échecs. Diapositives: ici Vidéo: ici
  • November 2021, PRIME problem-solving avond, UGent, Koninginnen en (bijzondere) borden. Mijn beamer is hier. En je mag ook mijn SageMath notebook met de opgaven, ook in pdf versie
  • November 2018, Club mathématique, Université de Montréal, Huit dames pour un échiquier: introduction échiquéenne à la pensée mathématique, de Gauss à Pólya. Diapositives: ici Video: Ici

    • Une vidéo de ma présentation au Clubmath de l'Université de Montréal le 28 novembre 2018 est disponible sur Youtube .

    Research on chess and math

    Our new preprint with Chris Müßig and Érika Róldan-Roa Complexity of chess domination problems is out at arXiv:2211.05651 ! It proves NP-completeness of a few problems of domination by queens and rooks on polycubes. It also boasts a companion video game and the solver we present was used to extend A075324.

    Collection of mathematical chess problem

    Along the years, I collected some mathematically inspired chess problems and created a few activities around chess and mathematics. I am trying to keep them all in one place. You can find them in a draft of a booklet below. Feel free to have a look; contact me if you want to contribute, or if you have comments. It will take some time before it is final, if it ever becomes finalised, but I will try to update it from time to time when I find new problems

    Current version: 02 from 2022-09-06

    Queens of the chessboards.

    Changelog

  • 2022-09-07: Second version with a few typos corrected.
  • 2022-04-06: First version put online. Contains the translation of two articles written for the Québec magazine Accromath.

    • Future updates

  • Add a summary of research with Christoph Müßig and Érika Roldán on domination
  • Add the problems of the PRIME problem-solving avond to the document
  • Add a section about the project with Toon Baeyens on generating interesting solitaire chess position.
  • Decide on titles