Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:05:16 09/10/99
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On September 10, 1999 at 08:41:47, Shep wrote: >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.) > >--- >Shep The only limit in Crafty is that you can't have more than 62 of any one piece, because a position _must_ have one king of each color or the move generator will break.
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