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Subject: Re: An idea to make chess more interesting

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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