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Subject: Re: No King program

Author: Chris Anderson

Date: 23:34:57 04/25/99

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On April 24, 1999 at 16:20:13, Bert Seifriz wrote:

>On April 24, 1999 at 15:37:12, Henk van Weersel wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>I sometimes use a computer program fore chesstraining with young children.
>>sometimes you want to remove all the pieces that are not related to the training
>>subject. That includes sometimes the white and black king to. Is it possible to
>>program a computer engine to work with pieces without kings on the bord.

     This will not help you, but your post reminded me of an old stand-alone I
owned long ago. It was the Fidelity Gambit, and it had a setup-position feature
that allowed you to *not* include the king!! You could start a kingless game
from your setup position, and the program would try to capture all of your
pieces, but would always refrain from capturing the last one if the circumstance
arose. Pretty strange, I wish I still had that computer.




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