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Subject: Re: a Bowcaster! new chess move for programs

Author: Art Basham

Date: 18:49:14 02/23/04

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Sounds neat...
but I dont get it...
you have to be much clearer than that for us older guys on here...:-)

Give us a diagram where the move is possible...:-)
thanks!

Art

On February 23, 2004 at 19:24:02, Brack Nickrow wrote:

>  Yes there are a lot of draws in chess, and there are a lot of variants i
>suggest a single move that will make the game infinitely more complex without
>changing the nature of the game.  The suggestion is that in the game to play the
>game so that players have the option of a single solitary backward pawn push or
>pawn capture.  They should say Bowcaster when they do it(why, because it's my
>idea and i like the sound of it! :)!  I think this variant should be programmed
>into new computer programs.  The game would remain essentially the same but much
>harder and would eliminate todays frequent draws, because of the difficulty of
>having to calculate backward pawn push's and captures would make greater room
>for human error.



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