yes..like the other hackers are saying....you have to deal with this problem like a poker player tries to guess his opponents cards....so the first step is to c

yes..like the other hackers are saying....you have to deal with this problem like a poker player tries to guess his opponents cards....so the first step is to create the piece expectation function...which will basically calculate the probability that a piece is (say knight) at square x,y given the probabilty expectation functions of all the other squares..one way to create probablilities for all squares would be to use a combination of dynamic programming and neural networks...you will have to create a dynamic programming algorithm that sort of trains itself(by storing data rather than changing its code!!) do better and better as you tell it how right or wrong it was....so the topics you are looking to cover in the next exercise (assuming tht u have already done some reading on image processing) are basic probability theory,dynamic programming and neural nets...those are my two cents on the problem.