Author: Angrim
Date: 16:19:46 01/09/04
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On January 08, 2004 at 12:27:21, Ed Trice wrote: >Hello Dr. Hyatt, > <snip> >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'd contend that writing a gothic chess program is fairly simple, unless you start with a chess program that depends HEAVILY on the 8x8 board. I could have a fully debugged program to play it in 2 days, but I don't see any motivation to do so. >>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. I'd say that its less "cool" than almost any of the other chess variants, simply because of the patent. nearly all of the other chess variants are completely free of such sillyness. >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. This is true of any new chess variant for the first few minutes that it exists. Shortly after that people start building books, except in the case of seriously randomized starting positions. >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. No more so than for any other chess variant. For a variant with serious difficulty in figuring piece values, try suicide chess. even I don't know a "right" set of piece value for that one. >4.Because of 1-3, it will be "fun". no more so than the other chess variants. and many of them are playable on the FICS and ICC servers, and are supported by winboard/zippy and other interfaces, which makes it far easier to play test them. Angrim
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