Chess Games Translated To Music 87
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."
What is algebra, exactly? Is it one of those three-cornered things? -- J.M. Barrie
Another cool chess/music project (Score:5, 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/ [krazydad.com] and here's video from the concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42G6P0b72Gk [youtube.com]