Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 23:14:55 08/31/00
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On September 01, 2000 at 02:02:33, Ed Schröder wrote: >On August 31, 2000 at 21:05:57, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On August 31, 2000 at 19:01:37, Chessfun wrote: >> >>>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. >> >> >> >>The name of the engine inside Chessmaster is officially "The King". The King is >>the name given to his engine by Johan. It was the name under which is program >>was known well before it was included inside Chessmaster. >> >>That's a natural naming choice for someone named "De Koning" I think. >> >> >> Christophe > >True. "De Koning" (dutch) = "The King" > >Like CT = Chess Tiger = Christophe Theron :) > >Ed This way I don't forget the name of my chess engine. :) Bad side effect: it hurts me when Tiger loses a game... Christophe
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