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Subject: Re: An intersting question to Dr. Hyatt

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 11:25:59 01/08/04

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On January 08, 2004 at 13:49:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>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.
>
>I don't see anything difficult about it at all.  Generating moves for odd
>pieces is not a problem whatsoever.  The evaluation would take some time to
>tune decently just as it does for a chess program, of course.  But the _game_
>itself is no more complicated to program for than chess.  IE I generate moves
>for kings and knights in exactly the same way.  I don't even generate moves for
>a queen, I pretend it is first a bishop, then a rook...  Etc.

It was difficult for him to program gothic chess, and that naturally means it is
difficult for everyone. Remind you of anyone else, Bob? :)



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