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Chess Games Translated To Music

Posted by samzenpus on from the sound-of-strategy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Blogger Jonathan W. Stokes used algebra to map famous chess games onto a piano, and then outputted the results as MP3s. The tunes created are surprisingly listenable."

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  1. Another cool chess/music project by jbum · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Back in 2009, I did something very similar with one of the 1997 Kasparov vs. Deep Blue games.

    One difference is that I used a chess engine, and made the search tree audible, so you can hear the chess computer "thinking". Here's my original blog article: http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2009/05/musical-chess/ and here's video from the concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42G6P0b72Gk