Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 00:37:05 11/14/02
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On November 13, 2002 at 23:52:28, David Hanley wrote: >There is a variant of chess called "crazyhouse" in which captured pieces can >return to the board. I play it on the chess servers; it's fun! > >Now, making this relevant to this board, there may easily be hundreds of legal >moves. Heck, if there's just 2 kings left there's 930 legal moves ( if all >pawns got promoted and were captured ). > >Could a program do well? Yes. http://sunsetter.sourceforge.net/results.html > >However, there will be a ton of alpha-beta cutoffs in crazyhouse. And nullmove >would be a great hueristic, since the side to move typically has a huge >advantage. That is correct. Very good thinking ! Georg
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