Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 15:53:00 01/09/04
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On January 09, 2004 at 16:47:26, Tord Romstad wrote: >On January 09, 2004 at 16:39:28, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>This begs the question: "Is it feasible to build a playing program which can >>play more than one game well, INCLUDING classical chess? > >Of course it is. Gothmog will soon support Glinski's hexagonal chess in >addition to >classical chess. You could of course argue that it doesn't even play classical >chess >well today, but that is only because of the incompetence of its author, not >because >it is impossible. > >Tord seems to me 99% of the code will be different: different move generators, different eval functions, different make_moves, different pruning. About the only things that would stay the same are the transposition table and the search itself. But those are trivial in terms of code size. anthony
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