{"id":1470,"date":"2014-02-05T17:40:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2014-02-05T17:41:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:41:46","slug":"the-ant-colony-optimization-algorithm-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=1470","title":{"rendered":"The Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm &#038; Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1471\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/budslife\/1771179517\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1471\" data-attachment-id=\"1471\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?attachment_id=1471\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judeacers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ants.jpg?fit=500%2C353&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,353\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ants\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judeacers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ants.jpg?fit=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judeacers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ants.jpg?fit=500%2C353&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1471\" alt=\"Ants\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judeacers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ants.jpg?resize=500%2C353&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judeacers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ants.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judeacers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ants.jpg?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Buddy Venturanza<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From <strong>Popular Science <\/strong>(h\/t kdh):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Searching for new solutions to the knight&#8217;s tour, a problem that has intrigued mathematicians for centuries,\u00a0University of Nottingham computer scientist Graham Kendall and a colleague turned to simulated ants. They used the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/AntColonyAlgorithm.html\">ant colony optimization algorithm<\/a>, a swarm intelligence technique based on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2011-04\/things-fire-ants-behave-gore-tex-liquid-woven-material-and-waterproof-raft\">behavior of ants\u00a0<\/a>looking to find a path between their colony and a food source.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read more, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/article\/science\/ants-playing-chess-find-new-solutions-old-problem?dom=tw&amp;src=SOC\">go here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Popular Science (h\/t kdh): Searching for new solutions to the knight&#8217;s tour, a problem that has intrigued mathematicians for centuries,\u00a0University of Nottingham computer scientist Graham Kendall and a colleague turned to simulated ants. They used the\u00a0ant colony optimization algorithm, a swarm intelligence technique based on the\u00a0behavior of ants\u00a0looking to find a path between their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chess-news","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judeacers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ants_feataured.jpg?fit=314%2C297&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1KM1s-nI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}