Author: Chessfun
Date: 16:01:37 08/31/00
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On August 31, 2000 at 18:57:15, Peter Fendrich wrote: >On August 31, 2000 at 18:39:15, Chessfun wrote: > >>On August 31, 2000 at 18:13:25, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On August 31, 2000 at 17:09:01, Peter Fendrich wrote: >>> >>>>I found the answear at >>>>http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~olympiad/ >>>> >>>>--------------------------------------------- >>>>Briefly: >>>> >>>>The game is played on a 10x10 square board. In the initial position, White has 4 >>>>queens placed at a4, d1, g1 & j4, and Black has 4 queens placed at a7, d10, g10 >>>>& j7. White plays first. Queens move in any vertical, horizontal, or diagonal >>>>line, as many squares as they wish, provided the destination square and those it >>>>slides over are all unoccupied. A move in the game consists of 2 steps. (1) >>>>Moving any queen that can still move. (2) blocking a square now reachable in a >>>>single queen move from the destination square of the moved queen. Once blocked, >>>>squares are never unblocked. The first player unable to move loses. For >>>>tie-breaking purposes, the winner is credited with a "territory" score. This is >>>>the number of vacant squares that could be reached by a winner's queen, given >>>>unlimited further moves. >>>>--------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>>...and the convincing winner was Johan de Koning! >>>>//Peter >>> >>> >>>I guess mobility plays a decisive role in this game, and The King chess engine >>>has always been very good at evaluating mobility! :) >>> >>> >>> Christophe >> >>By the description of the game maybe he should rename the >>engine the "Queen" engine. >> >>Thanks. > >As a curious coincidence I think Koning means King in some language. Is it >dutch? And now he is the emperor among Amazons. >Well, it's time to go to bed... :) >Good Knight! > >//Peter I think "de Koning" is "the king" in Dutch, which is where I think when people refer to the engine name as the king this also came from. Thanks.
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