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Chess Games Translated To Music
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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Victor Borge and Bobby Fischer will perform "In the Hall of the Mountain King's Gambit Accepted."
Seems to me the first thing you'd want is a control game. Convert a game played by two amateurs to music. Or two computers making random legal moves. Do they sound any less listenable?
Or have you just rediscovered basic music theory that random notes in the same key end up sounding like music?
It's pretty clear from listening that it's not following any time pattern; it's got no beat.
However I suspect for you it would 'Rock out with your pawn out!' Poor AC.
Yeah. Always gets the check, never gets to mate.
Now we need algorithms to convert code into music. Take the source code for popular programs and convert it to music.
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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