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New AI system reconstructs handwritten chess games, identifies errors

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Researchers have developed Zugwise, a novel system for reconstructing handwritten chess games from scoresheets. Unlike traditional handwriting recognition, Zugwise treats the task as game reconstruction, employing computer-chess techniques to identify plausible human errors. The system incorporates an absurdity detector and a backward search to pinpoint errors, and a Needleman-Wunsch merge to integrate evidence from both players' sheets. This approach significantly reduces silent errors and improves the accuracy of identifying the correct move fixes. AI

IMPACT This research demonstrates a novel application of AI and game theory principles to improve data accuracy in specialized domains.

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New AI system reconstructs handwritten chess games, identifies errors

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Gerhard Trippen (University of Toronto) ·

    Zugwise: Domain-Aware Game Reconstruction for Digitizing Handwritten Chess Scoresheets

    arXiv:2611.14544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digitizing handwritten chess scoresheets has been studied as a handwriting-recognition problem: read the move in each box and check that it is legal. This framing misses the errors that matter most. A misread that yields an illegal …

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