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Subject: Fantasy Position Generation & Evaluation

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 19:27:07 12/02/02



Intuitively, is seems that it should be possible to write a program to do the
following:

(1) Examine a given position to generate good "fantasy positions" based,
perhaps, on use of a pattern recognition scheme. A library of relevant patterns
might be called up out of memory and then a "very smart" subprogram would
synthesize candidate fantasy positions.  This synthesis might utilize a routine
to maximize the position evaluation score, where placement of the available
pieces is treated as a variable.

(2) Analysis to find possible legal move sequences leading from the "given
position" to the currently considered "fantasy position."  Legal move sequences
would be an output.

(3) Conventional search engine analyses whose purpose would be to determine
whether or not any of the legal move sequences would be playable.  The main
purpose would be to rule out legal move sequences which would not likely occur.
This would happen if the intermediate positions had "best moves" which were
different from the moves in that sequence.

Maybe some of this could be done more or less concurrently and/or interactively.

Admittedly, this is a "half-baked" idea.  It seriously needs refinement.

Could any of the programmers here at ICD CCC produce such a program if they
wanted to?

Bob D.



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