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Subject: Re: OT: What other games?

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 07:27:00 11/06/01

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On November 05, 2001 at 13:16:18, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

>Thanks for bringing crazyhouse up. It is a great game !
>
>On November 05, 2001 at 06:35:57, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>Crazyhouse chess is also in the same league as Shogi. Evaluation of Shogi is
>>comparativelly easy, not closely in the same league as Go. In Go it is 'very'
>>hard to find any generic factors at all.
>
>I agree.
>
>>Chess, Crazyhouse and Shogi are
>>solvable by approximatelly the same techniques, they need different q-searches
>>and pruning in the main.
>
>What I especially like about crazyhouse is that it is not solvable - at least
>for me. My program has been for short times on the ICC and Fics #1 spot, but I
>can still beat it far too often in 1 0 games (!!).

You're too modest.  :)

It has always been in the top 20 on ICC.  And right now is #3.

That's with almost 1,000 games played.  Mostly 5/0.

>
>on http://www.d2d4.de/sunsetter.asp you can download an interface to play
>crazyhouse offline. Some crazyhouse bots like Sjeng are included.
>
>Georg
>>
>>MvH Dan Andersson



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