Author: James T. Walker
Date: 04:25:39 04/27/99
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On April 26, 1999 at 12:10:58, blass uri wrote: >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 Hello Uri, In step 2 you look for mate and if not found you go to 4. When do you use step 3? Jim Walker
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