Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: No King program

Author: James Robertson

Date: 13:39:22 04/24/99

Go up one level in this thread


On April 24, 1999 at 15:37:12, Henk van Weersel wrote:

>Hello,
>I sometimes use a computer program fore chesstraining with young children.
>sometimes you want to remove all the pieces that are not related to the training
>subject. That includes sometimes the white and black king to. Is it possible to
>program a computer engine to work with pieces without kings on the bord. Is it
>just a routine you have to left out to program this ore is the algorythme of the
>kings so essential that it is not possible to work this out.
>
>Hope to get some info
>
>Greetings and regards,
>Henk van Weersel
>hvweer@westbrabant.net

I think that for most normal chess enginess the king is essential (my program
would crash if there were no king), but any engine that can play suicide or
losers chess should do just fine without a king.

James



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.