Information Technology

Chess can be considered as a warfare based board game. Sun Tzu's Art of War is the ultimate warfare manual. It makes sense to join the two together.
Many of Sun Tzu's guidelines can be coded as rules, some are merely statements and govern things like the reason for going to war. These reasons can be excluded from any coded rule base. The rule base that can be extracted will form the basic strategy for our player.
A second element, to provide a picture of the battle field, will be a color map of the board. The idea being that each square on the board will be assigned a number based on how many chess pieces have access to that square. For development purposes, and possible visual effect, the Red and Green components of the squares background color will be based on each player's coverage of the square.
There will be further elements involved, one at least to tie the first two elements together. This is how my style of development works, it evolves.