Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 22:40:35 02/09/06
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On February 09, 2006 at 23:53:33, Derek Mauro wrote: [snip] >So as I sit here dejected that I couldn't solve a problem I've spent years on, >I'd like ask everyone this question: How confident are you that you can 100% >accurately write the solution to the chess question in less than 2 hours, under >the pressure of competition, without the use of a debugger? I would have greatly simplified it to an absurd degree. I would not have written a legal move generator at all. I would have found the enemy king location and looked ONLY for check moves. Then, if there is no reply to remove the check, print the solution. I guess that you tried to solve a much harder problem. I would also have made a very ugly board representation (just array with huge edges so I would not overwrite the bounds sliding 8 past the edge of the board.) It would have been inefficient and ugly, but I think I could do it in a couple hours. Now, just writing a correct legal move generator would take me a full day, I guess. I think that they were probably looking for solutions like my outline. It would be irresponsible to expect you to write a real chess program.
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