Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 14:24:03 01/10/04
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On January 10, 2004 at 11:43:43, Ed Trice wrote: >Hello Reinhard, > >> >>But it would still be interesting to know, whether you already could have >>gathered some experiences with the piece values I have proposed >>[http://www.rescon.de/Compu/schachveri1_e.html]. >> >Not as of yet. Michel and I were chatting for a few hours, even after our game >wa over. Then I started to work on playing with the Bill Angel CapaGNU program. >The first two games were not intersting, since I was unaware that he had an >"EASY" mode turned on as default, and once he hit 6 plies he would stop >searching, even on longer time controls. > >I set the max depth to 12 (which was never reached), turned the EASY mode off, >and gave it 40/60 on a 2.8 GHz P4 to Vortex's 1 move/min on a 2 GHz P4. > >The game is shown here... > >http://www.GothicChess.org/matches.html > > [Event "Gothic Chess Match Game #1"] >[Site "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"] >[Date "2004.01.10"] >[Round "5"] >[White "Gothic Vortex 1.0"] >[Black "CapaGNU Modified"] >[Result "1-0"] >1. c4 Af6 2. Nh3 Nc6 3. Nc3 d6 4. d3 Nj6 5. g3 Be6 6. Nf4 Bd7 7. Be3 g5 8. Nfd5 >Ag4 9. Nb5 Rc8 10. Qc1 h6 11. f4 Ni4 12. Cg2 gxf4 13. gxf4 Cg7 14. Bf2 Be8 15. >h3 Ah5 16. hxi4 Axi4 17. Ah3 Cxg2+ 18. Kxg2 Bxb2 19. Axi4 Bxc1 20. Rxc1 e6 >21. Ndxc7 Rxc7 22. Nxc7 Qxc7 23. Aj5 Rg8+ 24. Kh2 f5 25. Bf3 j6 26. Bxj6 Bf7 27. >Bxi7 Ke7 28. Rjg1 Rxg1 29. Rxg1 Nd8 30. Rg7 d5 31. Axh6 Qb6 32. Bj6 Ke8 33. Bh4 >dxc4 34. Bxd8 Kxd8 35. Axf7+ Kc8 36. Ae5 Qf2+ 37. Kh3 Qf1+ 38. Ki3 Qxe2 39. Rg8# >1-0 > >You might find it interesting to note that PIECE VALUES the subject of most of >the battle. > >For example, take a look at this... > >http://www.GothicChess.org/match_05.gif > >Vortex allowed the trade of its own Queen + the b-pawn for the enemy Archbishop >and Bishop. this makes a great deal of sense to me - a Bishop would be just as strong as a Rook in normal chess if it was not limited to squares of only one color. My guess is that an Archbishop is only slightly weaker a queen - say 8 : 9 or so. A Chancellor might even be stronger than a queen in some situations (closed positions). anthony
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