Author: Keith Evans
Date: 20:08:53 06/18/04
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On June 18, 2004 at 21:47:35, Keith Evans wrote: >On June 18, 2004 at 21:26:10, Ed Trice wrote: > >>They cannot discuss playing the game of Capablanca Chess. >> >>>It seems you've been saying such an engine with a position setup feature would >>>be illegal, or did I misunderstand that? >> >>There is more to a chess engine than a setup feature. The king safety code in >>Capablanca Chess is very, very different from Gothic Chess. >> >>If the program has internal heuristics to deal with Gothic patterns, it is in >>violation of the patent. The whole point of the CapaGNU Modified match was to >>demonstrate that a Capa program, designed only to play Capa's chess, would get >>pulverized by one with Gothic-specific algorithms. > >So if you play Capablanca chess against CapaGnu it scores much better? Or is it >just that it is a weak engine overall. If it's just a weak engine overall, which >is what I believe based on running it, then you are not demonstrating your >point. Also to support that statement "The king safety code in Capablanca Chess is very, very different from Gothic Chess" you would want to demonstrate that adding such code would have no benefit when playing Capablanca chess. And to make that a broader point, you would want to demonstrate that it doesn't help any other potential starting position other than that used in Gothic Chess.
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