Author: Ed Trice
Date: 09:27:21 01/08/04
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Hello Dr. Hyatt, > >Why would I? To do this would require multiple things: > >(1) a reason for wanting to play YACV (yet another chess variant). ICC >already has dozens. No major tournaments. No major competitions. No >major organizations. So what would be the driving force? > I wish you could have been at Bartle Hall in 2002 with the 2500 people playing Gothic Chess. >(2) who would bother with a 1-year license? What would the fee be after >that? In my case, I really wouldn't care. > Well, you have to write the program first, which is a challenge. >Here is your challenge for the week: > >I am going to study your game. A friend and I are going to sit down and >start playing gothic chess against each other. Your mission is to _stop_ >us. If you can. I don't believe you can, myself, with any patent process >known to man. Show me visual proof of you playing Gothic Chess when you do, or else I will consider your post here just hypothetical :) >If you can't stop that, then you are going to be unable to prevent me from >writing a program that can simply play the game against someone else, just >like Crafty does for real chess. See, this is the beauty of it: writing a Gothic Chess program is diffcult, and, by default, that will stop many, many people, perhaps even you. >But this is all moot, as chess has a _long_ life left in it, with a lot >of inertia behind it. What would be the driving force for anyone to write >yet another variant program? 1. Gothic Chess is cool, and it is an interesting programming challenge. 2. There is no 'opening theory' so the programmer with the most talent would really be victorious, rather than the one with the best book. 3. There is clearly a disagreement as to the value of the pieces, something that has not been around in a long where chess is concerned. 4.Because of 1-3, it will be "fun".
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