Author: blass uri
Date: 09:10:58 04/26/99
I noticed that I can beat the weak personalities of chessmaster in 2 hour/40 moves by playing like a machine. The following rules are enough: 1)do a list of all the legal moves 2)play checkmate in 1 if you can otherwise goto step 4 3)look at all the possible captures and give them evaluations (substract the value of the biggest piece that the opponent can take from the value of the piece that you take and this is the evaluation) 4)If there is a capture with at least 0 score then play the capture with the biggest value(if there are 2 captures with the same value to the capture that come first in the table of possible moves(you do this table before the game)). 5)if there is no capture with positive score then look for checks(moves that threat the opponent king) when the opponent cannot reply the check by a capture and play the first move in your table. 6)if you did not do a move in step 5 play the first move in the table that does not allow your opponent to do a good capture (a capture when you cannot take back a piece of at least equal value) and does not repeat the position twice if you have material advantage. 7)if every move give the opponent the possibility to play a good capture then play the first move in your table. These are not the best rules that a humans can use in 40/2 hours. Uri
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