Author: Marc Bourzutschky
Date: 10:16:42 02/03/05
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On February 03, 2005 at 12:17:12, Duncan Roberts wrote: > >Actually, I only implemented KNNNNKQ as a one-off, so I have no general >>generator at all. I have done a number of changes to the Nalimov generator, >>mainly to look at different size chessboards, metrics, fairy pieces, etc. > >what do you mean by metrics and fairy pieces, and what size chessboards did you >try, were you looking for anything in particular, or just playing around ? > Well, all of chess is just playing around! I have considered non-traditional pieces such generalized knights which jump (x,y) instead of (2,1) and pieces which combine the movements of bishop and knight or rook and knight (used, for example, in Gothic chess.) I have looked at square boards from 4x4 to 80x80, as well as some 3-d and circular boards. Looking at different board sizes, even with traditional chess pieces, has in some cases led to better understanding of winning methods. Also, small boards run faster and are useful for debugging purposes. The metric stuff was mainly to look at the effect of the 50-move rule.
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