Re: Challenge
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>-- [ 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.
So that everyone knows the rules to 'Kriegspiel' (blind chess), quoting
form Hoyle:
For Kriegspiel three boards and sets of chessmen are used. There is
a referee, whose Chess set is in the center with the two active players
seated back to back, each at his own board. Each player moves his own men
and the referee duplicates each move on his own board. The referee tells a
player when his attempted move is impossible. Each player tries to guess
what moves his opponent is making. When a player completes a legal move,
the referee announces "Black (or White) has moved." Whan a player tries an
illegal move, the referee waves his hand to prevent it but does not let the
opponent know. When a move results in a capture, the referee announces,
"Black (or White) captures on (the rank, file, long or short diagonal)" and
removes the captured piece from the board of the player who lost it but not
from the board of the player who captured. A player may ask "Any?" and be
told if he has a possible capture with a pawn, and having asked he must try
at least one pawn capture before making a different move.
Hope this helps everyone,
Nathaniel Gibson
ngibson@postoffice.ptd.net
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