Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:16:16 01/08/04
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On January 08, 2004 at 14:25:59, Russell Reagan wrote: >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? :) In that regard, yes. But I won't compare _anybody_ to "you-know-who". There's no need to drop to such low-level insults here. :)
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