Hi, Sam. Thanks for all the work. I appreciate your efforts. Regards, Jeremy ... -- I try to design for the length of the game -- adjusting the balance of...
True, I've done a little more work on these two variants since the shortcomings were exposed. In the case of Balls of Fluff, the original purpose is obviously...
*http://tinyurl.com/p7mm8 Apparently quite a bit of work has been done already on toroidal chess variants, some with basically the same ideas as mine. My two...
... Has any of that work been done in a snailmail venue? I'm asking on behalf of those of us who have very hard times getting our webbrowsers to work, and...
Out of curiosity, I turned my attention to the pawn coverage in the standard 8 x 8 game. There are 14 used and 2 wasted out of a potential 16 (2 per pawn). ...
Based upon the precarious assumption that the standard 8H x 8W game of chess possesses a unique veracity in its design due to its characteristic pawn coverage...
It sucked. Why am I not surprised? Thanks for directing your computer program to chew on it and thanks for your expert analysis. It is becoming obvious that...
... Interesting. A 20-ply search with Zillions (albeit with Dunio/Strong castling) shows that the above opening setup is drawn, with Zillions seeing no real ...
How many nodes were explored in your 20 ply search? What is the principal variation? Gothic Vortex is now SMP enabled for multiple processor support compiled...
... Hmmm, Jetan addresses most of those without introducing really arcane rules. :) More pieces. Larger board. Either color may go first. Players my choose to...
... Is there a program that can analyze the rules for Jetan that I have here? <http://members.ispwest.com/gregg1/jetan/jetantournament.html> Play Chess? Ask me...
... In American numbers: 10,126,196 nodes (No, Zillions is not ChessV, so I can't tell you the number of razored and pruned nodes) ... 1. Ag3?! ... Huh? The...
Hi, Matthew. Is there anyone who can consistently beat you in Ultima. I notice that you are quite good at it. Well, Opulent Chess has a knight-wazir in it. ...
In American numbers: 10,126,196 nodes In a 20-ply search? No way. You would complete that search in about 15 seconds even on a slow machine. Vortex examined...
I would just say that in my experience, Zillions is a really weak player compared to Vortex. I think Vortex has a record of beating Zillions too. Zillions is...
Found another one today: http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/chessb.htm ... -- I try to design for the length of the game -- adjusting the balance of force and space...
I invite you to play Sun Tzu chess at Scheming Mind and see just how far from regular chess you can get using a regular chess board. I wrote the variant...
I've attempted to play Balls of Fluff and the bishops are all screwy. I think you may have miswritten the rules file for them. They should not be allowed to...
Of course they're allowed to change color. It's a toric variant with an odd number of files. I thought that was your plan, and why you only had one bishop in...
I must admit, you've been light years ahead of me on Balls of Fluff analysis. No, no, I was not so clever, Sam. I wish that were the case! Haha. I see that I'm...
Frankly, the Zillions Of Games program is too weak to crack an egg. So, what it fails to see means little to me. Since pawn stealing materializes as a...
My point was not that Zillions is ridiculously weak, everyone knows this already. My point was that you made up the numbers you provided. 20 ply searches in...
... Presumably, Zillions punes a good number of branches off of the search. Do you have a registered version of Zillions? You can set up zillions with a...
... OK, I thought that was 20 ply (10 move). I stand corrected. According to Zillions' help file (and my own experience with Zillions). From Help -> Help ...
... It's easy enough for me to create that kind of board in Zillions (not to mention the various kinds of "billard" boards where the pieces can bounce off of ...
... Thanks for the compliments. I think there are many good players out there in the real world, but they call the game "Chess" and wouldn't recognize it by...
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