Author: Angrim
Date: 23:48:10 02/24/04
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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 for very small values of infinitely >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. So you would have the option of moving a pawn backwards or capturing with a pawn backwards, once per game. That would make the game slightly more complex, although not much for computers. I think it would be pretty easy to add that to a program, as long as the rule was modified to say that this could only be done with pawns that were not on their starting position. Most programs have sections that depend on there being no pawns on the first or eighth rows. This would certainly do interesting things to the endgame if you saved the option that late, since the enemy king would not be able to attack a pawn from the rear so easy. Amusing idea, but I don't think I'll bother to code it. Angrim
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