Re: Challenge


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Re: Challenge



-- [ From: Dave Wollenberg * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --


>     But you know what would be a cool feature?   In "According To Hoyle,"
I
> read about a variation of chess where you don't see your opponent's pieces
.
> The way it works is there are three boards: one for white, one for black,
and
> one for a third person who has the entire game on his board.  The two
players
> try and figure out where the other person's pieces are by moving their own
, and
> the third person says whether that move is possible, whether it captured a
> piece (and if so, whether it was en passant), whether someone is in check
(and
> if so, from which "angle"), etc.
>     I don't know all the rules; somebody would have to look it up, but if
the
> computer already knows all the rules to the standard chess game, then it
would
> be an interesting feature to add.


In "Chessmaster 3000" there's a feature like this called "blindfold match"
or something like that. Its probaly in other advanced computer chess games
too.
<pre>
--
Dave Wollenberg
dave_w@nexxus.novasys.com
...they think that they themselves exist and are importnat and great in
their own eyes. And
can they be great when one night they exist and the next they are lost?
Their days are as passing
shadows and even in their lives they are vanity...  (From Via Passiva in
Early Hasidism)
</pre>


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