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Subject: Re: Winboard / Engine that plays illegal positions

Author: Shep

Date: 05:41:47 09/10/99

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On September 10, 1999 at 07:22:55, blass uri wrote:

>>there are no kings on the board (or just 1 king).
>
>It is not clear what is the target of the game when there are no kings.
>
>It may be to take all the pieces but you need to tell us a defnition of the
>target.
>
>What is the target if there is only 1 king.
>Youy must define the rules of the game that you ask engines to know to play.


As an aside to this, I would be interested in a program that allows setting up
more pieces of one type than you can legally get.
For example, there's a chess variant "Knight's game" where all pieces but the
kings are replaced with knights. But as you can't legally have more than 10
knights on one side, I cannot play such a game with commercial programs.
(Does WinBoard allow setting up such a position in the first place? I know Fritz
GUI doesn't.)

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Shep



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