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Subject: Re: Chess Robot

Author: Hans van der Zijden

Date: 17:40:13 05/30/03

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Quite an achievement. Watching the movies however, I couldn't help noticing that
it took 3½ minutes to move the knight from b8 to c6. It seems to me this can be
done a bit faster.

Instead of making the moves c7-c6, b7-c7, b8-b6, c7-b7, c6-c7 and b6-c6, the
sequence b7-b5, b8-b6, b6-c6 and b5-b7 is much shorter. The number of squares
the head has to pass starting with the first pawn goes from 17 to 12. The number
of times the head moves to a new piece goes from 5 to 2.

I will still beat it at speedchess, but it seems to me this is quite an
improvement.

Hans.



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