Author: Ed Trice
Date: 16:25:45 12/30/03
Hello Dr. Hyatt, My name is Ed Trice. I am in the process of writing a program to play the game of Gothic Chess, which is played on an 80-square board not too dissimilar from the one proposed by Jose Capablanca around 1925. Your rotated bitboards and static exchange evaluation routines in Crafty would speed things up tremendously, and I am wondering to what extend you might be opposed to the adoption of this code for the purposing of creating something so similar, yet vastly different? I know you have a "non-commercial use" clause in your crafty code, but it is my hope that 80 square chess with an Archbishop (knight + bishop) and Chancellor (knight + rook) would make such a creation as I am proposing outside of the domain of your intended restrictions. Creating the rotated bitboards for this project will be very difficult, but as you have done so much excellent work this would give me a tremendous head start. Please let me know your thoughts. Best Regards, --Ed Trice (GothicChess.org)
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